Leave management sounds straightforward until someone in France takes statutory parental leave, a contractor in Texas has a different PTO policy, and your finance team needs accrual reports by next Monday. We tested 7 platforms with real multi-policy setups and approval chains to find the ones that handle time-off requests without drowning HR in spreadsheets and email threads.
After setting up leave policies in 8 different platforms - configuring accrual rules, testing approval workflows, and requesting time off from both the manager and employee side - the biggest surprise was how differently these tools define what leave management actually means.
By Samantha Astorga