Leave Management in Jira with ActivityTimeline

Do you manage vacations, holidays, and time off of your staff in Jira? Do you have an audit and approve vacations? Do you need to create and maintain a multicultural team’s public holidays? If you want to help your team recharge and stay productive, it’s the right time to introduce a vacation management system in Jira for your team. This article will provide you with actionable tips about Jira Leave Management: how to manage your team’s vacations and holidays in Jira. The Activity Timeline add-on for Jira makes it easy to see when your team members are available to take on new assignments, when they have time for new projects, or when they’ll be out of the office for extended periods of time. In this blog, we will discuss a useful feature of ActivityTimeline in Jira for managing employee vacations, company holidays, and other time-off activities in your organization. So, if you’re ready to ease your workload and reduce stress in the workplace by implementing a more streamlined system with less double-booking time… read on!

What is Leave Management and how to use it in ActivityTimeline for Jira?

Leave Management is the process of managing employees’ records about leave in the organization. Leave Management could be a time-consuming process if you are managing it manually. You may have to track requests, approvals, and other relevant data by hand. Furthermore, you might have to enter that data into a system so that it can be tracked and reported on.

However, with an automated Leave Management solution, you can streamline the process and minimize the amount of time spent on it. Vacations and Holidays in Jira are not built-in functionality. One such solution is the leave management functionality that is available in the Activity Timeline add-on for Jira.

This feature will allow you to set up a leave calendar and leave requests for your employees. In addition, you can use this functionality to create reports about the amount of time that has been taken off by your staff members.

What are the different types of employee leave?

With ActivityTimeline there are the possibilities to create different types of employee leave. Leave types are important to consider when setting up a leave calendar for your organization. There are various types of leave that you may want to track and approve within your organization. Some of these include:

• Sick Leave: Time that employees take off due to illness
• Personal Leave: Time that employees take off for personal reasons
• Vacations: Time that employees take off for vacation
• Military Leave: Time that employees take off due to military service
• Bereavement Leave: Time that employees take off due to a death in the family
• Maternity Leave: the time a mother takes off work for the birth or adoption of a child
• Paternity Leave: the time a father takes off work for taking care of a child
• Time Off: Time that employees take off for a variety of reasons

In ActivityTimeline manager can create any event type besides the default ones.

Benefits of automated Jira Leave Management system with ActivityTimeline

79 % of respondents to a survey about vacations by an organizational consulting firm said they intended to use more vacation days this year than in years past. And manage the whole process is important for project planning. Leave Management may seem like a simple process and yet, we know it’s challenging, and the neglect of this resource planning function can lead to troubles in your company. Yes, many companies often find themselves in hot waters when it comes to absence/leave management.

Let’s face it, you need an all-in-one resource planning software that would help you approve, and track leaves taken by your employees easily. Below are 5 benefits that will save you time and energy during the Leave Management process:

• Automated leave entries and records:

Forget about filing by filling up physical forms. Speed up the resource planning efficiency by reducing the need to manually enter information.

• Track employee’s absence:

ActivityTimeline allows you to manage people’s vacations and track their availability. This way you know exactly when to expect them at work and when they will be absent.

• Full day/ Partial Day-offs:

Click on a calendar to create a custom full day or partial day off.

• Flexible approval system:

Different permission levels in ActivityTimeline, the system would allow your team members to request time off and the managers approve or dismiss it. The confirmed days off appear in the schedule right away.

• Public holiday calendar:

Create the public holidays to be displayed in the team’s schedule. There is also a possibility to add events (Sick Leaves, Holidays, etc.) for all the team members at once and set up a recurring event for repetitive activities.

How to use Vacation Tracker in ActivityTimeline for Jira

You can use the Vacation Event functionality to create a calendar for your team members’ vacation days. The Vacation Event functionality will allow you to see when each team member is on vacation, as well as when they have vacation days available.

In addition, you can use this functionality to create a report that shows each team member’s vacation days. This report can be very helpful for managers who are looking to schedule projects and assign new assignments to their team members. You can use the Vacation Report functionality by going to the Reports Mode and selecting the “All Reports” sub-menu. From there, you can select Vacation Report in Tracking Section.

How to Approve a Vacations on a Timeline

How to do that? To begin with, only users with the “Manager” role have permission to approve the vacation.

To approve vacations on a timeline, you will first need to create a Vacation Event and assign it to your team members. Once your team member has created the vacation event, it would appear on the timeline.

After you’ve created a vacation, you can approve vacations by clicking the checkmark button on the event. When you add approval to the event, the approval type will be set to “Approved”. However, you can change the approved vacation to unapproved.

To approve it, simply click on a grey icon on a vacation event and click “Approve”. To change the planned start/end date, assignee, or delete the vacation, you should unapprove it first.

In addition, in Reports Mode you can select “Approved Vacations Status Report” to see all vacation statuses. This is a great way to keep track of all of your team members’ vacations and public holidays.

Holiday Management for your Team in Jira with ActivityTimeline

Managing the busy schedules of all the team members can be tough and take a lot of time. We would like to make this process easier and faster. ActivityTimeline gives you the possibility to add events for all the team members at once.

There are two ways to create a Holiday for Jira users:

1. You can create a one-time event directly on the Timeline. You can add your team members’ personal holidays to the calendar by adding the event “Holiday” and adding a title for the holiday. Create a Holiday and specify whether to create the work for the whole team or a particular person by checking or unchecking the box in the “Create for everyone in this Team” field.

2. In order to set a holiday calendar for your entire team, you can create a Holiday Scheme or several Holiday Schemes and manage it in the Team section. You can apply a Holiday Scheme to any Team.

Managing your team members’ public holidays is a great way to keep track of those days. This will help you avoid scheduling important projects on those days, which can be beneficial to both you and your team members. This will help ensure that everyone is working from the same calendar.

How to manage sick leaves, and days off in Jira with ActivityTimeline

Just like with vacations you can create sick leaves and days off to keep up to date Jira Leave Management in your team. The day off could be for a full or partial day off. All records could be tracked in the “Approved Vacations Status Report” as well.

Conclusion

These are the few ways by which you can manage your vacations, holidays, and time off. You need to take care of your health and well-being, so you can perform your best at work. A vacation is a great way to refresh and re-energize yourself, while also allowing you to spend time with friends and family. Besides, the best people are those who are able to make the most of their time. They are the ones who know how to make the most of the time they have for vacation and for other tasks. So, implement the tips discussed above in order to manage your vacations, holidays, and time off.

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