Sick Leave Tracker That Keeps Sickness Separate

The most common mistake in leave tracking is putting sick days and vacation days in the same column. They behave nothing alike. Vacation is requested in advance, planned around, and drawn from a finite allowance. Sickness arrives without notice, is not chosen, and in most companies does not reduce anyone's holiday. Merge them and two things break at once: your vacation balances are quietly wrong, and the absence pattern you actually needed to see is buried inside them.

Here sick leave is a leave type with the deduction switch turned off, so it is fully recorded and fully visible without ever touching an allowance. It appears in the calendar in its own color, it counts toward whether the team is short staffed today, and it exports alongside everything else. What it does not do is make someone's remaining vacation shrink. You can add further types on the same basis: bereavement, jury service, unpaid leave, parental leave, study days. Each one gets its own name, its own color and its own answer to the question of whether it deducts.

Seeing the pattern is the point of a year long view. Six separate single days across twelve months read as unremarkable in a month by month calendar and read as something worth a conversation when they are all on one strip. The tracker does not editorialise about that, and it does not score anyone. It just puts the year in front of you honestly, which is more than a folder of emails does.

Because sickness is unplanned, entry is built to be fast. Pick the person, pick the range, and the count skips weekends and public holidays automatically. Half days handle the case where someone came in and went home again. If the same person is already recorded as away on those dates, you get an inline warning before you save rather than a duplicate afterwards. Everything stays in your browser, which matters more than usual here: absence records are sensitive, and this tool never uploads them anywhere.