Benefits

Employees have total visibility into their own vacation balances and accruals

Employees enter own time conveniently online

Rapid approval process with automatic e-mail notifications

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Challenge

Previously, the head office at 1-800-GOT-JUNK? relied on one person to manually administer time-off requests, accruals, and balances on Excel spreadsheets and paper-based systems. However, as the company continued to grow, the maintenance of time-off requests and balances had become too labor intensive and prone to inaccuracies.

“We needed a system where employees could see their own vacation balances themselves, rather than always having to ask the payroll department or their manager” explained Harpreet Sandhu, Payroll and Benefits Administrator for 1- 800-GOT-JUNK? in Vancouver, British Columbia. “Our system was not efficient before; we had one person looking after so many people’s vacations.”

“We needed a system where employees could see their own vacation balances themselves, rather than always having to ask the payroll department or their manager. ”

Solution

Sandhu explained that Replicon, Inc. was their vendor of choice because Web TimeOff (now Web TimeSheet Time & Attendance Edition) comprised all of the significant features they needed.

“Since it is web-based, all employees could log-in online and access the program” said Sandhu. The multi-level yet easy-to-use reporting function also highly appealed to them.

Since implementing TimeOff, Sandhu recognizes more time-saving benefits for administrators, managers, and employees. Their previous time-off tracking system was error-prone and time consuming. With Web TimeOff, administrators save a lot of time. Managers, for instance, no longer have to enter in days away for their employees because employees can now do this task themselves. Sandhu also noticed a rapid adoption process because Web TimeOff is easy-to-use.

“Since implementing TimeOff, Sandhu recognizes more time-saving benefits for administrators, managers, and employees. ”