Whosoff is owned and operated by X:drive Computing Limited, Canterbury, England database and business solutions developer founded in 1999. The whosoff idea was conceived in December 2005, and was 'born' on the 1st July 2006. WhosOff is a free on demand delivered application to manage staff holiday for small to medium sized business.
Every company has difficulty tracking staff holiday, WhosOff delivers an answer to this enduring problem, by allowing staff to request
holiday whilst applying simple initial controls, checking the number of days a staff member has left etc. and yet still passing the
logged request on for final approval by an appointed approver. WhosOff is empowering all employers to have full visual control over
staff holiday and its approval.
What is WhosOff?
WhosOff is a place for companies to look after their staff holiday planning and tracking, sharing the classic office wall planner with all their staff securely online. WhosOff started as a holiday planning service for just one of our customers but soon attracted over 2500 companies to this free holiday planner.
With WhosOff Companies Can:
- Know who's off at the click of a button.
- Take the initial legwork out of checking holiday requests.
- Free up secretaries, and managers time.
- Browse through departments and see WhosOff when - or who's been off.
- Get the detail on an individual member of staffs leave for the whole year.
- Print all those holiday details; department by department or even by individual.
- Track sickness and unpaid leave.
- Empower staff to make informed holiday requests.
- Easily get control of staff holiday planning.
With WhosOff Your Staff Can:
- Know who's in and who's off.
- See at a glance their holiday allocation and that of their immediate colleagues.
- Be less frustrated over holiday requests.
- Make more informed leave requests.
- View online from home to enable discussion with partners as to when holiday may be possible.
- Make quick and easy applications with a clear recorded outcome.
WhosOff is for companies wanting to deal with staff holiday applications swiftly yet fairly, whilst allowing all involved a clear overview
of the companies' holiday commitment. WhosOff is growing into a "must have" staff holiday planner for all small to medium sized businesses.
WhosOff is building a community of dynamic business who want to deal with staff holiday request quickly and securely. This is a free service.
We always encourage our users to contact us with thoughts, suggestions and feedback.
WhosOff Reviews
Steve Anderson
Effectively managing human resources is one area where many agencies struggle. As a case in point, it can be a hassle to keep track of employee vacation and sick time. In small agencies, the agency owner typically tracks vacation and sick time — but most of the time, not very well.
WhosOff.com is a free Web site that helps organizations of any size manage and track vacation schedules, holiday planning, and sick time. The program is completely browser-based. Once you establish an account, you and your staff can request holiday/vacation time. The request goes to whomever you designate to approve or decline requests. Then, staff is notified of the decision. If you have remote offices, you could assign one individual to review all requests for time off. You could also designate a department manager or supervisor.
In addition to paid holidays and vacations, the system can also track sick leave. WhosOff enables you to visibly see patterns of sickness across the organization or for each individual, because sick days show up as red blocks on the user’s calendar. With this program, you’ll know who has a chronic case of Monday illnesses.
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Techcrunch.com [Duncan Riley]
WhosOff is an online workplace leave management service that makes organizing time off easy.
The service is directed at administrators, company owners and managers who deal directly with managing time off, from keeping a record of leave taken to balancing the demands of future leave requests.
WhosOff is not simply an administrator controlled database where information is gathered. WhosOff supports full employee access; employees can submit requests for leave or even log sick days. Appointed administrators can then accept or decline requests no matter where they are; being a web based platform decentralizes user access.
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John Reardon
WDealing with a group of people’s time off can be a headache. Spread that group across several locations and that headache quickly turns into a migraine. There are hundreds of applications to help with this which range from the very rudimentary to the overly sophisticated. WhosOff, a free web application, looks to have hit the sweet spot here. It is easy to use, but also includes more advanced features like time off approvals. Since it is web based, it is simple to deploy and has the added benefit of allowing the whole team to see who’s out of the office at any given time....
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Webware.com [Rafe Needleman]
I am a big fan of simple Web tools that make annoying tasks easier. One of the latest tools in that vein: WhosOff, a free Web service that helps you coordinate vacation and out-of-the-office times for people in your company.
There are plenty of online in-out boards available (many are downloadable apps--feh). What makes this one somewhat different is it has smarts. You can set up rules to make sure your two customer service people aren't out of the office at the same time. The system also tracks vacation time that accrues annually, and won't let staffers book more time off than they have coming to them. You can set WhosOff so employees can't lock in vacation time without getting their manager's approval, or so it books time automatically (providing the time off isn't breaking any conflict restrictions you've set up). WhosOff e-mails requests to managers and confirmations back to employees, and it looks like once the system is set up and running, it'll be easy for everyone to use....
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KillerStartUps
As an employer, managing your staffs´ requests for holidays, allotted time off, sick days, and so forth, can become very time consuming and frustrating. WhosOff.com offers a free application to manage your staffs holiday planning. The employer no longer needs to use a traditional wall planner, full of clutter and confusion, but instead has everything just a click a way on this free, holiday planner calendar. The employer can easily see who is off when, give approval for holiday requests, and track sickness, unpaid leave and out of office time. WhosOff is intended for the use of small to medium sized businesses.
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