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Sickness

This template adds functionality to your platform to alleviate the frustrating employee sickness administration, which can help you improve your employee well-being process, boost productivity, and reduce process time with a best-in-class sick absence service.

This template adds functionality already documented, see our knowledge base articles:

Time off setup

To make each article relevant to the installed functionality, we've only mentioned certain workflows or pages installed by this template. To see how to add a time-off category and a time-off plan, see our knowledge base article, Time off pack.

Workflows

The template adds the Time off - sickness record approval workflow to the Absence model, which sends an approval request to a manager when their direct report submits a sickness record. You can edit any workflow to suit your requirements, see our knowledge base articles, Create a workflow.

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Pages

The Sickness template adds the Sickness page, where employees can view their recent sicknesses and record current sicknesses. The page also shows FAQs, Knowledge articles, Useful links, and links to other services, for example, if you install the other time-off templates, you could link to those services such as Annual leave, Family leave, Volunteering, or other leave. Each block uses filters to only show the relevant material for the page. Make sure you edit the block and change the filters to what you need. You can edit the page layout, see our knowledge base article, About page layouts.

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On the Recent sickness block, select RECORD SICKNESS, which opens the Record sickness page in a modal window:

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To submit your request, select RECORD SICKNESS, which triggers the Sickness record approval workflow mentioned earlier in this article. If your sickness is in the past, the My sickness is finished and I've returned to work option appears. If you don't select this, a chip is displayed on your sickness entry stating that your return is not confirmed:

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On the Recent sickness block, select VIEW ALL, which opens the Sickness history page in a modal window: 
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Validation rules

The template adds a validation rule to the Absence model, Time off - check sickness is in the past. See our knowledge base article, About validation rules.

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When you select dates in the future and attempt to submit your request, you receive this error message.

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Change this rule to suit your organization's needs. See our knowledge base article, Create a validation rule.

Follow-up tasks

  1. After installation, make sure you assign yourself the HRSS role. Otherwise, you might not be able to access some of the pages. See our knowledge base article, Assign or revoke a role.
  2. Add your policy information for time off knowledge articles, FAQs, useful links, and highlights. You might be able to set up automation using workflows to add your content. See our knowledge base article, About Applaud's integration with Workato.
  3. Define your time off categories. See our knowledge base article, Content Categories.
  4. Add the Sickness page to your service catalog, which requires the Service Catalog template. Alternatively, you can install the Time off Pack template.
  5. Tailor the experience to your organization's needs and procedures.
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