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In the workplace, the amount of work is limitless. There will always be work to do - regardless of the urgency and the amount of effort and man hours required. It is no wonder that workplace stress is on the rise in Singapore.

According to a 2016 survey “Working In Asia”, conducted by Roffey Park, results found that employees in Singapore spend more hours at work as opposed to their counterparts in Hong Kong and China. Additionally, more than half of these surveyed employees have mentioned that their stress level has increased over the past six months.

The question of whether employees can carry forward annual leave into the next leave year is one of the common questions in the workplace. Many of our customers asked on what is "Carried Forward Balance Type". This configuration allows you to control how much leave you allow to be carry over for your employees. Here is a guide on how to set up your carry forward leave settings on our online leave management software.

It can be tricky to manage employees' holidays alongside all the other requirements of running a small business – but it’s not impossible. As an employer, you can choose to offer more leave entitlements to your employees than the statutory requirement. Here is a guide on how to set the year of service rule for your employees' leave entitlement so that the software will give the correct entitlement based on the employee's years of employment.

Regardless of the size of the business, an easy-to-use staff scheduling and timekeeping system can save the HR department hours of manual administrative work and increased staff productivity as well. Here are some of the commonly asked questions by our customers when they are setting up the "OT & Allowance" configuration in our online timesheet software.