Oversee and plan your team's days off with the Absence calendar

Stay informed about your team members' comings and goings on any given day with the help of the Absence calendar.

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How does the DeskTime Absence calendar work?

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Enter absence reason

Choose the option you need, from business trips and vacations to unpaid leaves and sick days.

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Log partial absences

Not all absences take up the entire day – you can also indicate partial-day out-of-office hours.

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Employee requests

Your employees can submit their requests for days off, and admins can approve or deny them.

Let the Absence calendar help you manage your team even better

The Absence calendar provides you with an immediate and clear picture of who's away from work and why, letting you plan ahead in time.

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Effective HR management

Oversee the absences in your team and plan accordingly in advance to ensure plenty of hands are on deck when needed.

Precise wage calculations

See how many days people have been absent and calculate their wages precisely according to the time spent working.

A quick overview

No need to run around the office to check who's at work – a glance at the Absence calendar will tell you everything.

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Leave these issues in the rearview mirror with the Absence calendar

Disorganized team

When everyone knows who's at work, everyone can also plan their activities more efficiently.

Sudden understaffing

Taking scheduled absences into account, you'll know which shifts to schedule and for whom.

Dishonest employees

Keep an account of all absences and ensure that no one's abusing your paid leave policies.

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Marc Miquel

Senior User Researcher, Enterprise

"Desktime helps me stay productive and to limit time"

"I know that at the end of the week, I want not to exceed a certain number of hours, but I also set myself some productivity % goals (time focused on certain apps / total time). I have used it for more than 7 years."
Sreejith B.

Assistant Manager, Mid-Market

"Efficient time tracking and productivity insights with DeskTime"

"I am an IT admin as well as a project lead. My job is to monitor and manage my employees, who mainly work from home. With DeskTime, we can measure their productivity, monitor their worktime activity, and evaluate their performance based on their time efficiency."
Diego Carballo

CISO, Mid-Market

"Highly efficient tool"

It allows me to see where I spend my day, find opportunities to improve my productivity, and balance my work with necessary breaks. It’s a tool that gives me clarity without being intrusive. It also allows me to control my work team and measure their level of productivity.
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Tarun S.

Head of Product, Small-Business

"Amazing choice for tracking performance of employees"

DeskTime provides valuable intelligence and support for managing our distributed teams. It offers easily digestible performance metrics for our remote employees. Their competitive pricing further solidified our decision.
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Abhay Singh Rana

UI/UX Designer, Mid-Market

"Perfect activity tracking"

It helps our company's hybrid culture by tracking the productivity of every employee working from home and generating weekly reports to review everyone's performance accurately. The software also helps employees focus more on their tasks without being distracted by unproductive apps or sites.
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Computer Software, Mid-Market

"Efficient and user-friendly time tracking tool"

With its detailed reports and automatic time tracking, we can optimize workflows, improve project planning, and ensure accurate billing for client work. This has led to better productivity insights, more efficient time management, and enhanced team performance overall.
Natasha Sierra

Practice Manager, Mid-Market

"Has improved our staff's productivity"

DeskTime assists us in monitoring productivity, tracking time spent on tasks, and identifying workflow inefficiencies. It provides valuable information, which supports better team management and accountability.
Parminder Singh U.

CEO, Mid-Market

"Efficient time tracking and productivity enhancement with DeskTime"

With DeskTime’s automatic idle time and break detection features, we easily monitor the work-life balance within teams. It eliminates the need for manual reporting, leaving no room for error.
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Computer Software, Small-Business

"One of the best tools for remote teams management and instant reporting."

I really like that it has clock-in, clock-out, and holiday management. It's easy to use, and I implemented it very fast. The support that I was offered was great!

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With DeskTime, you can see your employees' arrival and departure times, analyze their productivity, schedule shifts, oversee absences, maintain a healthy work-life balance, keep track of specific projects, and more.

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Frequently asked questions about the Absence calendar

To ensure effective employee absence tracking, you can take advantage of tools like DeskTime, which offers absence management features. In DeskTime's case, it's called the Absence calendar. There, you can indicate your team members' days off and log the reason (vacations, business trips, unpaid leaves, etc.). It'll give you an immediate overview of who's at work and who's away and help you plan future work effectively.
To efficiently keep track of employee absences, you need an employee absence log template where to enter the days off and the reasons why your team members are away from work. You can create one from scratch, but there's an easier option available, too – using a tool like the team Absence calendar offered by DeskTime. You can enter all types of absences (including partial-day ones) and manage your team's schedules effortlessly.
An employee absence schedule is a system you use at your workplace to oversee and manage employee absences. Your team members may need time off for different reasons, including vacations, sick days, and more. An organized way of keeping track of these requests and granted absences means that you can avoid scheduling conflicts, ensure the necessary staffing levels, and much more.
Absence management means that there's a transparent system in place for how employees can request absences and how you, as a manager, keep track of them. Here's an example of how it looks if you use DeskTime's Absence calendar. Your team member needs a day off, so they submit an absence request in the calendar; administrators can view these requests and then decide whether to approve or deny it. The absence and reason will appear in the calendar if the request is approved.
Effective absence management means your leave policies are clear and fair to all employees. You also need a system that allows you to track the requested and granted absences – this will ensure compliance with local labor laws and fair treatment of all your team members. You need to keep track of not just absences themselves but their reasons, too. This is where tools like DeskTime's Absence calendar can come in handy.
Absence management is crucial to ensure you know what's happening with your team and their workloads; it's also essential to observe all the labor laws and grant all the required vacation days. By managing your team's absences, you can keep up with who's been away and for how long, as well as why, and then act accordingly – you can calculate vacation and sick pay correctly, ensure no one exceeds their allocated vacation time, and do much more.
Yes! DeskTime's Absence calendar lets you log and oversee your team's absences, indicate why a team member is away from work, and much more. Combined with the Shift scheduling feature, this effectively manages your workforce and everyone's workload, ensuring a happy and productive team.
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