Staff Holiday Booking
Streamline annual leave requests and approvals with self-service booking, real-time calendars, and policy enforcement across teams, sites, and geographies.
Access PeopleXD Evo
Track sickness, holiday and other absence types across multiple sites, departments and shift patterns. Give managers instant visibility, reduce manual admin and spot absence trends before they affect productivity, staffing and labour costs.
Designed for organisations that need to:
For medium and large organisations, managing absence is rarely straightforward. Different sites, shift patterns, teams and policies can make it difficult to maintain visibility and consistency without the right system.
Without a connected absence management solution, many organisations struggle with:
Our absence management software helps you standardise processes, improve visibility and make faster, more informed decisions.
Get a real-time view of absence across your organisation so managers can identify trends, take action early and make better staffing decisions.
With built-in reporting and dashboards, you can:
With Access PeopleXD Evo's Workforce Management Software you get unified, intelligent absence management as part of a complete HR suite that connects recruitment, people management, payroll software, and reporting. Automated processes, compliance protection, and complete workforce visibility - all in one place.
See who is absent, where and why across every site, team and department.
Standardise absence requests and approvals with rules tailored to different teams and policies.
Monitor sickness levels, recurring absence and Bradford scores automatically.
Automate SSP calculations, fit note uploads and tracking, and return-to-work processes - all with clear audit trails.
Manage annual leave, sickness, parental leave and other absence types in one system.
Keep rotas, staffing levels and payroll accurate when absence changes.
Give managers instant access to dashboards, trends and workforce reports.
Staff Holiday Booking
Streamline annual leave requests and approvals with self-service booking, real-time calendars, and policy enforcement across teams, sites, and geographies.
Rota Scheduling
Build, publish, and adapt rotas with ease. Ensure the right people are in the right place at the right time, with cost and compliance insights built in.
Reporting & Analytics
Turn workforce data into actionable insights. Monitor absence trends, labour costs, and compliance risks in real time with dynamic dashboards built for large organisations.
Employee Onboarding
Bring your onboarding process together with scalable employee onboarding software that reduces admin, improves new hire engagement, and integrates seamlessly with your wider HR platform.
“Since the introduction of Workforce Management, employees can self-serve and take control of their holidays and leave without having to chase for approval… Managers can save time, and errors associated with this task have now been reduced.”
PTSB invested in Access PeopleXD Evo’s Workforce Management module to improve their holiday and absence management processes; enabling their employees and managers to submit, track, and manage attendance, sickness, absence and leave entitlements, all on one system.
We’re more than HR software; we’re your partner in shaping a thriving, future-ready organisation.
For large organisations managing complex workforces, absence management means strategic workforce intelligence, not just holiday and sickness tracking. Our AI-enabled absence management is seamlessly integrated within Access PeopleXD Evo delivering predictive analytics, intelligent automation, and AI-driven absence policy guidance in any language.
With 30 years of experience and award-winning business software solutions, we help you keep all the moving parts of your organisation together in one place. We're your partner in building a future-ready organisation where absence management becomes workforce intelligence.
Our Absence Management software is cloud-based, mobile-friendly, and integrates with payroll and HR systems. Data is securely stored in UK-based servers, compliant with GDPR.
Our HR and Payroll software is now powered by Access Evo - our new AI-embedded software experience.
We’re putting cutting-edge AI and People Analytics to work across your entire HCM suite, connecting it like never before.
Copilot, your AI-powered HR Assistant, provides instant answers to HR queries, delegates routine tasks, and uses generative AI to create content and guide you on HR best practice.
Our embedded People Analytics, provide you with real-time actionable insights giving you the ability to easily diagnose trends, identify challenges and accelerate business impact.
AI Feed automates priority workflows, ensuring employees are aware of critical tasks, and can drive action in the moment.
John approached all tasks with consistency, professionalism, and strong organisational skills. He was always accommodating when plans or requirements…
Building our new IPS system for CareCo has been a steep learning curve for my HR team. However, our values at CareCo are Lend a Hand, Lead with Hear…
Experienced consultant guiding through some difficult topics. I found it valuable for my own role and can easily identify clear business wins after a…
The project management team at Access have been excellent. The meticulous planning and support for our implementation has been first class. Whether t…
Knowledgeable consultant. explained everything in detail and asked for questions regularly throughout the session.
I have experience of implementing many HR and Payroll systems during my career with many different suppliers. I can honesty say that my experience of…
Very detailed, insightful training.
The training was pitched correctly to the target audience, comprehensive and covered exactly what I needed. I have conquered my fear of Insight! Th…
A very helpful operative on the phone and quick responses to my problem.
very professional and helpful
I have been working with The Access Group for just over a year on an HR transformation journey. My primary contacts throughout this process were John…
Assigned John Crowley as PM supporting implementation of PeopleXD in the National Ambulance Service. We found him to be extremely professional and ap…
Peter is always professional and very knowledgeable. He is always engaged and very nice to work with and I am really pleased he was a part of this p…
Vlad gave clear and precise instructions for me to follow to resolve the minor problem I had. Would definitely recommend Access.
We have recently used ACCESS to go live with a new module in SelectHR to support our employees and managers. The custom build process was really supp…
Steve has helped us with a major issue that we have been facing in closing absences which already has a paid upto date on SelectHR. He has been very …
Steve was very responsive, nothing was too much trouble, and he was very easy to work with.
Steve has worked very closely with us to meet, and deliver, our requirements, guiding and advising us on the best solution. Steve is great to work w…
Joe Finnigan provides excellent support to our HR project with Select HR. He is very knowledgeable on the system.
I have been working with Steve for over a year now and if Steve says he will do something or get an answer you can rely on him to deliver. Nothing i…
Find out how our HR suite can help you achieve your business goals.
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Explore the features and benefits Access PeopleXD Evo offers in our 4 minute video.
Absence management software is part of our AI-enabled HR Software solution and works by providing a range of tools and features to help managers and HR teams keep track of staff absence across the entire organisation. At Access, we offer absence management software that is integrated with time and attendance management software, and this gives managers and HR teams:
Absence management software is a holistic solution designed to help organisations manage all absences on one system - from holiday entitlement to parental leave and sickness. It usually includes both a holiday booking system and more sophisticated absence tracking and management capabilities.
A staff holiday booking system has a more specific purpose, which is to help managers and employees to easily view, request and approve holiday requests in a central location.
The best leave management system transforms absence management from reactive tracking to predictive workforce intelligence. For medium and large organisations, this means AI-powered automation that reduces admin overhead, embedded analytics that identify at-risk departments before productivity drops, and intelligent policy guidance available in any language.
The best systems provide self-service functionality allowing employees and managers to view calendars, entitlements, and book leave on any device, whilst analytics should deliver real-time insights on absence patterns and compliance risks. Key features include automated trigger points that highlight sickness patterns requiring attention, seamless integration with payroll and HR systems, and embedded People Analytics that provide actionable insights to diagnose trends
The most effective solutions integrate absence management within a comprehensive HR suite, ensuring single sign-on access and eliminating disconnected systems that create administrative burden for growing organisations.
You’ll have access to always-on support that covers both technical expertise and strategic guidance to help your HR suite deliver the ROI you expect.
After you go live with your system and depending on the level of support you require, you may be assigned a Dedicated Customer Success Manager to help you get the most out of your system, alongside a Technical Success Manager who provides proactive technical advice.
We offer contractual service commitments with rapid response guarantees to ensure any issues are handled swiftly. This is tailored to the level of support package you have.
Yes – we provide proactive system monitoring and preventive optimisation so potential issues are addressed before they impact performance.
Absolutely. We offer comprehensive training resources and ongoing best-practice guidance to help your team get the most from the system.
No – we offer support packages which provide an end-to-end partnership, from initial implementation right through to supporting your wider digital transformation.
Read our guide on managing absence across multiple offices and countries, or explore our broader article on tackling absence challenges at scale.
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