Benefits and Leave

This category covers what employers offer beyond pay and how they manage time away from work. It includes types of leave, flexible ways of working, the benefits a company provides, and the metrics HR uses to see whether those benefits are used, valued and affordable.

On the leave side, leave management explains how companies set entitlements, accrue balances and approve requests, while sick leave and parental leave describe the most common kinds of absence and the rules around them. Absenteeism shows how to measure unplanned absence and read the trend between teams. Related terms cover bereavement leave, furlough, job sharing, flexible working and return-to-work programs.

On the benefits side, employee benefits gives an overview of what companies offer and how they review it, and cost of benefits per employee shows how to put a number on that spend. Other metrics include benefits satisfaction, benefits utilization rate, retirement plan contributions and the return on investment of benefits.

In Skailer, leave policies, balances and approvals run in time off and attendance tracking, and employer contributions such as pension count toward each employee's total cost in compensation management.