LBi in the UK are a company of 400 employees across 3 different offices. The largest full-service internet agency in the UK, they used antHR to unite their HR data across the company.

The challenges they faced were:

• Employees split between 3+ offices across London;
• Multiple, time-consuming processes for holiday and sickness monitoring;
• No single source of staff data;
• No ease of reporting on staff absence patterns or benefits information.

Features of antHR that helped them solve their problems:

• antHR integrated seamlessly with LBi's ActiveDirectory removing the need for time-consuming username/password rollout;
• Used the antHR flexible holiday sign-off process to model their new approval process;
• Created their own custom staff information database using the flexible Staff Record administration tools;
• Are now able to accurately plan for future holidays and analyse sickness and holiday patterns;
• Are now able to manage multiple benefit packages with shared individual benefits;

Gamesman are a manufacturing firm with over 50 employees and growing rapidly. Faced with an increasing workload in tracking staff data and absence they needed a solution that was flexible to match their working conditions and powerful to save as much management time as possible.

The particular challenges were:

• Mixture of full and part time staff with different shift patterns;
• Some staff with no access to the internet at work;
• Complex mechanism of holiday entitlement calculation;
• Strict health and safety requirements to know who was in the building on a given day.

The antHR system has the following features that helped them overcome these challenges:

• Working fortnight template for part-time workers. Holiday entitlement calculated pro-rata according to working template. Reporting includes adjustment based on working template;
• Management screens that allow actions to be performed on a staff-members behalf. Access to the system can be provided to people at home;
• The system allows for custom holiday entitlement calculations to be created;
• Reporting shows who is in each office on a given day, including off-site working locations.