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Typical Challenges

Have you ever asked yourself whether or not vacation planning is possible in Outlook? If so, you’re one of many people who have wondered the same. Vacation planning, including the process of approving requests, avoiding forms and e-mails going back and forth. All of these are common issues when it comes to Outlook and time-off requests.

The Limits of Outlook

Furthermore, the issue becomes even more complicated if you don’t just have to track a few to up to ten people. Having dozens or even hundreds of people over not just weeks, but months at a time. Filtering vacation times in Outook or looking for the people who are out of office at any given time can become a challenge.

Because Outlook is not made with these sort of large scale overviews in mind, the question of how to plan in an efficient manner remains.

Most Common Workarounds

Generally, those who have struggled with these issues often had to resort to one of the many band-aid solutions:

Whether it’s an entirely new calendar for it, making an excel spreadsheet for everyone that needs to be updated constantly or keeping it all on most basic of solutions: a paper calendar on the office wall.

OnTime as Solution

One such company that struggled with these very same issues is the Geberit group, the European leader in the field of sanitary products.

Read the full story here.

The solution in this case was to use OnTime Group Calendar. Not only did this make it much easier to overview and more streamlined to organize, but it also allowed them to be more flexible.By enabling their users to customize the time frame and focus of the calendar view, thereby making it much more adaptable to work with.

The all-in-one solution

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With OnTime, you can easily submit and process requests for time of office of any kind without needing to e-mail back and forth. Changing or erasing vacation times is as easy as changing any other meeting or event. We can also define and filter what type of out of office time is shown according to which options you need.

Summing up, scalability is no longer a challenge and this simple solution saves everyone a lot of time and stress. Which, when you want to plan time out of office, you really don’t want.

OnTime group calendar works effectively in Exchange OnPrem or Exchange Online, as well as in any combination. OnTime overcomes the limits of IT systems for you!

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