Away Today

Make it useful and they’ll love it: This is a short story about how a simple intranet-based solution took hold at an organization and solved a much bigger problem.

Staff absence from the workplace due to sickness, off site business commitments or travel for work caused a communications breakdown. This had a negative impact on our business.

[…] our needs analysis brought to light that staff wanted to know when they could expect Joe would be back. This was on top of their need to know that Joe was away.

[…] Solution : use some of that valuable intranet front page real estate to show who in your region / time zone is not in the office today and tomorrow, when you can expect them back, and why they’re away.