Why Your Team Needs More Than a Leave Tracker

Most leave management tools do one thing well: they tell you who's off and when.

But here's the problem — knowing who's off doesn't tell you who's struggling.

The gap between absence and wellbeing

Traditional leave trackers are reactive. Someone books a holiday, it goes on the wallchart, their manager approves it. Job done.

But what about the developer who hasn't taken a day off in three months? Or the project manager who's been clocking 50-hour weeks and cancelled their last two holiday bookings? A wallchart won't flag that. A spreadsheet certainly won't.

Hours worked + leave taken = the full picture

When you combine time tracking data with leave patterns, you get something far more powerful: a real-time view of how your team is actually doing.

• Who's overworking? Clock in/out data shows average hours per day, per week, per person. If someone's consistently doing 10-hour days, that's a signal.
• Who's not resting? Leave data shows gaps. If someone hasn't taken a day off in 8 weeks, that's another signal.
• Who's at risk? Combine both, and you can spot burnout before it happens — not after.

What a wellbeing-first platform looks like

This is exactly why we built Ana into Restana. Ana is an automated wellbeing engine that watches both hours and leave patterns across your team.

She doesn't just track — she acts:

• Flags exhaustion when someone's working long hours consistently
• Nudges people to take breaks when they're overdue
• Shows managers a traffic-light dashboard of team wellbeing
• Tracks overtime against contracted hours automatically
• Sends return-to-work check-ins after extended time off

No other leave management tool does this. Most don't even try.

The cost of doing nothing

Burnout isn't just an employee problem — it's a business problem. Burned-out employees are less productive, more likely to leave, and more likely to take extended sick leave.

The average cost of replacing an employee in the UK is £30,000. A proactive nudge from Ana costs nothing.

Try a different approach

If your current tool only tells you who's off, you're missing the bigger picture. Restana combines time tracking, leave management, and AI-powered wellbeing monitoring — for £1 per user, per month.

Start your free trial and see the difference.