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Monday morning. Your summary report arrives, and you skim it for who's around.
Peter is on annual leave from 09:00 to 17:30.
Except Peter doesn't work Mondays. He has never worked Mondays. His leave happens to run across one, and the report has dutifully told you about it, with times, as though there were a Peter-shaped gap in the day that somebody needs to cover.
Multiply that by everyone whose leave spans a long weekend, and by every part-timer in the company, and a report you're meant to be able to skim in ten seconds becomes one you have to actually think about. 🤔
A report that makes you stop and check isn't doing its job.
Now it just says so 📋
Where a leave day falls on someone's non-working day, the summary report now tells you:
Peter Drugan is on Annual Leave (non-working day)
The times are gone, because they were never relevant, and the two words that actually matter are right there at the end of the line.
Same in the daily report, same in the weekly one.
What this means for you
The people on the list who need covering are the people on the list who need covering. Nobody else is padding it out.
Ten-second skim. Back to your morning.
