- Who it’s for
- Companies
- Software
- Outlook or Google Calendar
- Setup
- 20 minutes
- Gives back
- Surprise absences, every week
Step-by-step walkthrough
- Create a team calendar separate from anyone’s personal calendar
- Give edit rights to leads; view rights to the rest
- Add leave, site days, board meetings and compliance deadlines as all-day events
Get the rest of the steps and the one-page PDF
Steps 4 and 5, what to watch for, and a one-page PDF to keep.
Where the recovered time should go
Not into doing more of the same. That is the whole argument — the hour you get back isn’t a cost you’ve cut, it’s a return you can finally collect. Put it on a client, on the person you have been meaning to train, or on the work that has been good enough for two years.