On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do we have any best practices for tracking team member vacations, travel, > etc.? > We have several :) The description of WMF Sick/Vacation calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=wikimedia.org_ljc5vdg9vevjf5l948m1fsk5u4%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles> in https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_IT/Calendars says Add sick, vacation, working remote, OOO, holidays, etc. to this. That's pretty definitive. Yes it can fill your Google calendar window ,but it's easy to uncheck a calendar. It's only viewable by wikimedia.org members Meanwhile https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Staff_handbook/Benefits#Time_Off_Benefits says "These instructions include how to add your time off plans to shared calendars", but... they don't! Maybe someone copy-pasted from https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/ADP_Employee_Self_Service_Portal#Coordinating_Time_Off_with_Calendars which echoes Guillaume's reply: 1. Put your time off on your calendar, and copy (or invite) your manager. ... (but doesn't mention shared calendars). Note you can view an event and More actions > Copy to *Another calendar*, so creating two calendar events isn't twice the work. Nick Wilson (Quiddity) replied: > The two teams I work with (CL and Collaboration) both use their team's > gcalendar (using copied events from personal calendars) to track member's: > vacations, extended-sickdays, traveldays, etc. > Using a team calendar instead of WMF Sick/Vacation allows staff to be more open about "out today for drug rehab", and you can use it for intra-day absences ("Out until 1pm, note missing the deploy"), but doing so means WMF is inconsistent. Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer
_______________________________________________ teampractices mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices
