How do you manage Holiday requests?

[Netwacky87]

Hi!

 

Just wondering how you guys manage holiday requests? Ie, Do you have a shared calendar? Manual holiday form etc?

 

Our system seems a bit long long winded. We have to request into our Line Manager, then it goes to our bursar to sign, and then to HR...then it will get signed eventually (and more than likely, you will have taken the holiday before it gets officially approved!)

 

I'm looking for a system that I could possibly roll out to all full time support staff to eliminate all this red tape. I know sharepoint can do all that I want with workflows for approvals etc but i'm sadly not a sharepoint expert!

 

Will be good to hear what everyone else does!

 

Ta!

[dblight]

We have a shared exchange calendar. Leave requests goto Line Manager who provisionally accepts/declines think he runs it past Business Manager and then it's entered into the calendar. Once is in there it's sorted.

 

Normally I can request leave in the morning and it's in the calendar a couple hours later

[NotSoFast]

It doesn't sound like you are, but if you are a GAFE school you can automate all this with Google forms, spreadsheets, calendar and apps script.