An organisation is built on its employees, and for any organisation to operate at its best, the employees have to be happy and work cohesively. Ensuring that employees have a work-life balance also means that it is important to give employees appropriate time off so that they don’t get burnt out or overworked.

Leave management is simply the system that helps an organisation manage its employees’ leaves in a fair, accurate and efficient way. In many countries, an employee is entitled to a certain number of holidays per year, and a leave management system records these holidays as well.

Implementing a process where employees are granted a certain amount of paid leaves annually can significantly reduce disruptions or miscommunication in work.

An effective leave management system also facilitates employees to determine how they want to manage and use the leaves they are granted by allowing them to apply for leaves, encash leaves that they don’t avail or even ask for leaves as compensation for working overtime or on holidays.

Let’s see how leave management works in ERPNext!