I lead a small team of 40 people who work in the 24/7/365 mode. All the tasks assigned to me would have been impossible without a well-balanced team. The loss of working time by employees plays an important role in finding balance in the team, and the fight against the loss of time is one of the tasks of the manager, since there is nothing more expensive than time.
I would like to tell you how I struggle with the loss of time and learn how you do it. I ask under the cat :)
In my opinion, the loss of time can be divided into two groups, managed and unmanaged.
Managed loss of time:
1. Vacation - we are all human;
2. Study (Trainings, seminars, universities, etc.), business trips - a team of professionals;
3. Hospital - they can also be controlled!
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Unmanaged loss of time:
1. Hospital - black box;
2. Dismissal - a new person;
I consider the most interesting losses of time to be hospital ones; they can and should be managed by me, they make up 3-4% or 1 person per year!
I will show you my real time loss schedule in days compared to 2014-2015.

As can be seen from the graph, it is possible to reach the autumn and winter months with good morbidity rates due to the subsidization of vaccines against ARD. And in the summer months to give more vacations to someone who wants to rest or there is a chance that a situation will arise when a person buys a sick-list, just to rest, and then he also goes on another vacation and losses for you will increase.
You can manage sick leave by distributing vacations and by carrying out social work on agency staff to vaccinate.
But there are those who just love to increase their weekends at the expense of sick leave.
It is best to collect data about each employee in a single place.
As each separately and comparing them.
Single

Group comparison

From the table and graphics it is clear that there are people who like to relax and take off need to talk.
About this example, you lead how to manage the loss of time.
If you are interested continue more deeply next time.
What kind of software I use, I wrote myself just a hobby, you will need it, I will put it in order and make it open.