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Streamline your organization's leave management. Get comprehensive guidance for HR professionals on vacation, sick leave, PTO, and other absence policies to ensure fairness, compliance, and employee well-being.

How to plan PTO days to maximize your vacation in 2026

Strategically planning your Paid Time Off (PTO) is essential to make the most of your vacation days while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. With the right time off planning approach, you can transform limited days into meaningful, restorative breaks. This guide will help you master vacation planning for 2025, from understanding key strategies to leveraging expert tools.

7 ways to boost productivity with absence management

Being one of his time's brightest minds, Benjamin Franklin, born in 1785, has enriched the world with multiple ideas and inventions. From electricity to political philosophy, his interests seem to dwarf one of the key concepts that transform today’s world - productivity.

Best practices in modern taking time off

After the Covid-induced revolution in working habits taking the time off can be tricky, especially for remote workers. Apparently, office communicators like Slack and Microsoft Teams are the best tool to tackle this problem.

How the HR Software Can Change Your Workplace

Nowadays, companies no longer have as much time to deal with the operation of the paper system. Managers need immediate access to reports, preferably in real-time. They also want to have access to information from anywhere – on laptops, smartphones, and other mobile devices. So how do you meet their

Product updates

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Gmail autoresponder for employee absences

It's peak time-off season. If you use the Google Workspace integration, Calamari can now automatically set an out-of-office reply in Gmail for the time off requested in the system.

Employee Requests: visibility for admins

Last month we launched Employee Requests. Now, based on your feedback, we've added the first set of improvements: more visibility into the request flow for admins, and less manual work when setting things up.

Goals are now part of the Performance module

A review conversation works best when you see not just the result, but also the goals someone was working toward. That's why the Performance module now shows a person's goals and their progress right there during the review.

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