Unplanned leaves may reduce the productivity of a certain team and impact the overall capacity of the organization. Our new insight offers you a view into which departments and teams have unusually high unplanned leaves, as well as projected unplanned leaves for the future months. Read on to learn more.

Unplanned leaves are unscheduled leaves, that occur without previous notice. These leaves might happen due to various reasons — sick leaves, doctor appointments, jury duty, wedding leaves, or employee burnout. Such absences often have a toll on the project delivery, as they impact the project timeline or the scope of the project.

In order to keep the project on course, it is necessary to tackle the issue of unplanned leaves — by adjusting the timeline of the project before and during its lifetime, re-allocating resources when needed, all the while taking into account the possibility of unplanned leaves during the planning phase.

However, all of these actions require insights into which business units record unusually high unplanned leaves when compared to the rest of the company, as well as how many unplanned leaves should be expected in the near future.

Enter the Unplanned Leaves Insight — to help you understand the patterns of these absences.

Our Unplanned Leaves Insight scans through your departments and teams and surfaces if some of them have significantly higher unplanned leaves when compared to the rest of the company. These unplanned leaves are represented as the percentage of working days multiplied by the absences redorded as unscheduled leaves. Departments and teams that have significantly higher unplanned leaves when compared to the rest of the company are surfaced in the bar chart.

Being able to get estimates on the number of unplanned leaves during a future period is crucial for keeping the project on the course. The second part of Unplanned Leaves Insight offers you just that: we take into account your historical data on unplanned leaves and create estimates on what these could look like in the next three months. Bars with reduced opacity in the bar chart below represent estimates for the percentage of unplanned leaves in the next three months.

At the bottom of the page, you can see the playbook, which suggests ways of further investigation of the results. You can check off any actions you have already taken:

There are only two prerequisites for accessing the Unplanned Leaves Insight on the People Analytics platform:

The insight can be accessed by clicking on the “Insight Nugget” button in the Unplanned Leaves metric in the Headcount chapter of your Story.

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