Leave of absence flag for employee to temporarily adjust their expense burden

Description

This feature enables a temporary adjustment of their expense burden, a necessary consideration when running a workforce plan. It serves to streamline workforce management by accurately capturing fluctuations in staff availability and the corresponding financial implications. It should allow the user to temporarily disconnect an employee from the workforce model between two different dates.

Example Use Case

Scenario: A global consulting firm uses CPM software for workforce planning and managing financial data. The firm frequently has employees taking sabbaticals or parental leaves, significantly impacting the firm's expense burden due to temporary staffing or redistribution of tasks.

Solution: The CPM software provides a leave of absence flag feature. When an employee goes on leave, the manager flags the employee's profile. This action triggers an automatic adjustment in the system, reducing reported expenses associated for that employee during the leave period, ensuring accurate financial and planning reports. When the employee returns it is simple to re-activate them, saving time from re-entering the employee and their expense drivers.

Considerations

The leave of absence flag should accurately reflect the change in expense burden. That mean that, even though an employee is on leave, it may be possible that the company still has expenses such as health insurance. Make sure the feature doesn't simply turn off the employee.

Also consider time granularity in the contact of this requirement. If an employee goes on leave mid-month, and you plan at a monthly granularity, how does the system calculate that? Does it understand the concept of days in a month, or does it ignore that?

Questions to Ask a Vendor

• Functionality: How does your system manage the leave of absence flag for employees? Is it for a point in time, or can we enter start and end dates?
• Automation: Is the process of adjusting the expense burden when the flag is set an automatic function or does it require manual intervention?
• Time Granularity: If the employee goes on leave mid-month, how is the burden calculation affected?
• Integration Capabilities: If the employee is flagged as on leave in the HR tool, does that automatically flow to the workforce model in the CPM?