All guides
Every SquadBear guide on one page, by topic: leave and absence, time and attendance, performance reviews, team health, people operations and EU compliance.
42 guides across 7 topics
Leave and absence
Accrual, carryover, proration and liability, plus the approval and coverage habits that keep time off from turning into a scramble.
- Mixed UoP and B2B Teams: Five Places Your HR Tool Blurs the Line
- Timesheet Close: Why a Grid Is Still a Draft
- Named Cover: Why 'Someone Will Cover' Is Not a Name
- B2B Contractors and Leave: The Approve Button Is Evidence
- Sick Leave Is a Process, Not a Request
- Preventing Team Coverage Gaps: Why Shared Calendars Fail
- Prorating PTO for Part-Time and Four-Day Weeks
- Accrued PTO Is a Debt: How to Calculate Your Leave Liability
- Exporting Absence Data to Payroll: Why Mapped CSVs Win
- Slack Leave Approvals: Why Approving in Slack Beats Email
- Your Team Isn't Taking Vacation. That's a Management Problem
- Public Holidays & Leave Policy for Distributed Teams
- Designing a Fast Leave Approval Workflow Without Bottlenecks
- PTO Accrual Explained: Grants, Proration & Carryover
- The Bradford Factor: Formula, Calculation & When to Use It
Time and attendance
Logging hours without surveillance, splitting engineering time for R&D claims, and the working-time records EU law actually asks for.
- The Tablet by the Door Is a Record, Not a Camera
- Mixed UoP and B2B Teams: Five Places Your HR Tool Blurs the Line
- SquadBear Is Available in the Gemini App and on the Website
- Timesheet Close: Why a Grid Is Still a Draft
- Working-Time Records: What EU Law Wants From a 40-Person Company
- Surveillance-Free Timesheets: Track Hours Without Spyware
- Best Time-Tracking Tools for Software Teams (2026 Guide)
- CapEx vs. OpEx for Engineering Time: A Guide for Tech Teams
Team health
eNPS, pulse surveys and health checks, and how to read the signal on burnout without turning it into monitoring.
- SquadBear Is Available in the Gemini App and on the Website
- Your Team Isn't Taking Vacation. That's a Management Problem
- Surveillance-Free Timesheets: Track Hours Without Spyware
- Pulse Surveys vs eNPS vs Health Checks: Which Do You Need?
- How to Run an Effective Team Health Check (Template & Guide)
- What Is eNPS? The Employee Net Promoter Score, Explained
- Burnout Tracking Without the Big Brother
People operations
Onboarding and offboarding checklists, policy sign-off, renewals nobody owns, and running the whole function when the team is you.
- Mixed UoP and B2B Teams: Five Places Your HR Tool Blurs the Line
- Named Cover: Why 'Someone Will Cover' Is Not a Name
- Getting Off the People Spreadsheet Without Losing What Made It Good
- Sick Leave Is a Process, Not a Request
- Probation, Renewals, Expiries: The Deadlines Nobody Owns
- Exporting Absence Data to Payroll: Why Mapped CSVs Win
- Performance Reviews Are Broken: Here is a Simple Alternative
- EU Pay Transparency Directive: What Small Companies Must Do
- Your Team Isn't Taking Vacation. That's a Management Problem
- The HR Department of One: A Survival Guide
- Routing HR Questions Through an AI Assistant: What Broke
- Designing a Fast Leave Approval Workflow Without Bottlenecks
- The Complete Employee Offboarding Checklist & Legal Guide
- Employee Onboarding Checklist for Growing Teams
- How to Roll Out Company Policies & Track Employee Sign-Off
- PTO Accrual Explained: Grants, Proration & Carryover
- The Bradford Factor: Formula, Calculation & When to Use It
Performance and feedback
Reviews, goals and feedback without a composite score: what to write, what an assistant may draft, and what it must not decide.
AI and agents
What actually works when an AI assistant drives HR: the data it should never need, the approvals it can carry, and where it broke.
- EU AI Act and Performance Reviews: What AI Must Never Decide
- Engineer Self-Reviews From GitHub and Jira, Without AI Slop
- Mixed UoP and B2B Teams: Five Places Your HR Tool Blurs the Line
- SquadBear Is Available in the Gemini App and on the Website
- Agent Approvals: The Writes That Should Wait for a Click
- What 'Agent-Native HR' Means (and What It Shouldn't)
- Slack Leave Approvals: Why Approving in Slack Beats Email
- EU AI Act in HR: What You Can & Cannot Automate
- Routing HR Questions Through an AI Assistant: What Broke
- Your AI Summary Shouldn't Require a Copy of Everything
- The Velocity Blindspot: Why Healthy Sprints Still Slip
EU compliance
GDPR requests, pay transparency, the AI Act and working-time records, written for companies without a legal department.
- EU AI Act and Performance Reviews: What AI Must Never Decide
- Mixed UoP and B2B Teams: Five Places Your HR Tool Blurs the Line
- Agent Approvals: The Writes That Should Wait for a Click
- B2B Contractors and Leave: The Approve Button Is Evidence
- Working-Time Records: What EU Law Wants From a 40-Person Company
- Handling Employee GDPR Requests: Data Export & Erasure Rules
- EU Pay Transparency Directive: What Small Companies Must Do
- EU AI Act in HR: What You Can & Cannot Automate
- How to Roll Out Company Policies & Track Employee Sign-Off
- Burnout Tracking Without the Big Brother
- Your AI Summary Shouldn't Require a Copy of Everything