Thanks all, and especially S for pointing out existing documentation. We so desperately need a single place to find all this wisdom.
I remain torn about whether or not to set up team calendars. Kevin Smith Agile Coach Wikimedia Foundation *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Help us make it a reality.* On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:15 PM, S Page <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
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