Despite encouraging signs of recovery, workforces are continuing to be cut and recruitment budgets slashed or frozen because of the economic downturn. As a result, more and more organisations are facing the challenge of trying to maintain, or even increase, their productivity levels with significantly less resources.

In this challenging environment, the ability to expertly and adeptly manage human resources and ensure all employees perform to their maximum potential and at maximum levels of productivity has become critical.

With cost-saving at a premium, companies also need to ensure that their productivity levels don’t drop, or that money isn’t needlessly wasted, because of employee absenteeism or inefficient leave management processes, which is why implementing a leave management system such as Systems Valley’s LeaveMaster  in your organisation is invaluable.

Leave management applications like LeaveMaster enable you to accurately collect and analyse data on all forms of workplace leave and absence and see at-a-glance who’s going to be in and out of the office on any working day; so you can make informed decisions before authorising employee leave and ensure your productivity levels don’t drop as a result of key personnel booking holidays at the same time or employees taking more time off than they’re entitled too.

By viewing up-to-the-minute summaries of employees’ leave and absence records, you can also identify and take action against employees who have been damaging productivity by taking too many unwarranted sick days, and use the data collected in the application to identify absenteeism patterns and trends you may previously have overlooked.

You can find out more about LeaveMaster  here.

Although Microsoft’s Windows sales fell for the first time in history this year, sales of Microsoft SharePoint are continuing to rise.

According to a recent article in The New York Times  sales of SharePoint broke the $1 billion revenue mark last year and have continued to rise this year, despite the economic downturn, with companies such as Ferrari, Starbucks and Viacom all using SharePoint to create their public-facing websites.

You can read the full article here

Or to find out about Systems Valley’s comprehensive range of SharePoint solutions and services, contact the Systems Valley team.

As discussed in yesterday’s blog, by switching to Microsoft SharePoint, companies can work more efficiently and productively, as SharePoint makes it easy for employees to find and share critical business information and collaborate across boundaries.

At our offshore development centre, we have a pool of highly-qualified, technically-skilled developers who have a wealth of experience in designing, developing and implementing SharePoint applications, plug-ins and web parts and customising SharePoint web parts and functionality.

So if you are developing an application or software product for SharePoint, or are looking to enhance SharePoint for your clients with customised functionality and bespoke web parts, our SharePoint developers can give you all the help you need.

To book one of our experienced SharePoint developers, click here

We’re delighted to announce that we can now help our clients work more efficiently and productively by providing them with Microsoft SharePoint solutions and services.

Part of the 2007 Microsoft Office System, Microsoft SharePoint creates a single, collaborative workspace where employees can view and share ideas and information, create and manage documents and electronic content and collaborate with each other, no matter where they are.

We can help companies plan and develop a strategy for securely implementing SharePoint, and can smoothly handle every aspect of the implementation process.

To find out more about our SharePoint solutions and services, contact the Systems Valley team.

The latest CIPD absence management survey contains some interesting statistics about  employee absence during the recession.

Nearly four in ten of the employers surveyed said that the economic downturn had increased their organisation’s focus on reducing absence levels and costs.

However, fears over job security during the recession do not appear to have led to a reduction in the levels of absenteeism. Only 12% of surveyed employers said they had noticed an increase in the number of people coming to work ill in the last twelve months, while 67% said there had been no change in this respect.

You can download the full report here.