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Reviews, Learning and Absence Load on One Year

Overlay team-level absence load, learning and talent programmes, company closures and country holidays in one Microsoft 365 year view, so the CHRO plans reviews around thin coverage without opening anyone's record.

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Illustrative workforce year: in August, the performance review cycle lands on the peak of absence load.

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A Privacy-Safe Workforce Year for the CHRO

Overlay the aggregated absence load, learning and talent programmes, company closures and country holidays your teams already keep — as pressure on a team, never as anyone's record.

Flat Year

Twelve months of people cycles side by side

Absence load, not individual records

Leave shows up as pressure on a team — how many are away in a given week — so a people leader plans reviews and training around thin coverage without opening anyone's record.

Talent events kept distinct

Company closures, learning programmes and talent milestones carry their own categories, so a training week is not read as a holiday.

Holidays by country from a feed

Country holiday calendars come in as read-only feeds and sit in the same column as the programmes planned around them.

Flat Year view, January to December 2026, days 1 to 19, of a CHRO workforce calendar: engineering, support, HR, marketing and finance absence load as team-level bars, year-end review windows in February and December, compliance training in March, mid-year performance check-ins in July, a summer company closure in August, graduate, engagement and promotion programmes from September to November, cyber training in November, US holidays and Easter, each coloured by its source, with the category list Company Closure, L&D and Talent open over November and December
Flat Year — January to December, days 1 to 19: absence load in dark blue, learning and talent programmes in green, public holidays in red, one column per month; the open list shows the categories that keep closures, learning and talent apart.

Week

The week a talent review meets three teams on leave

Load per team, as a bar

Each team's absence shows as one all-day bar with a count — Engineering: 1 on leave — so the week's coverage is read without a name.

The collision that Flat Year predicted

The review that looked crowded on the year is confirmed in the week, while the meeting can still move.

Holidays on the same rows

A public holiday from the country feed sits directly under the review and the leave bars, so the one-day gap is not a surprise on the day.

Week view, 24 to 30 May 2026, of a CHRO workforce calendar: a talent and succession review from Monday to Friday, engineering, HR and support each with one person on leave on the same five days, and Memorial Day on Monday, with the Memorial Day entry open showing its date and location
Week — 24–30 May: the talent and succession review runs Monday to Friday, starts on Memorial Day and has three teams down by one person all week.

Month

A month of mid-year check-ins over summer leave

Month for the people team's planning

Month is the scale for placing check-ins, onboarding weeks and training sessions into the weeks that still have cover.

Aggregated at the source

The absence list publishes counts per team, not who is away or why. The calendar reads that list as it is; the individual request stays in the HR system.

The same permissions as the source

Managers see the teams their Microsoft 365 permissions already allow; nobody gains access to a record through the calendar.

Month view, 28 June to 8 August 2026, of a CHRO workforce calendar: mid-year performance check-ins as green all-day bars from 6 to 24 July, engineering, finance, HR and support absence load as dark blue bars in the same weeks and around them, and Independence Day on 3 and 4 July, with the Independence Day Holiday entry open showing its date and location
Month — 28 June to 8 August: three weeks of mid-year check-ins drawn over the weeks in which engineering, finance, HR and support each have someone away, after the Independence Day holiday.

Key benefits

People cycles on one year

Performance, learning, hiring and closure cycles from their own calendars in one Microsoft 365 view, next to the absence load they compete with.

Absence as team load

Leave is drawn as a count per team per week, so coverage is read at a glance and nobody's absence becomes a data point on an executive screen.

Talent, learning and closures kept distinct

Each programme keeps its own category and colour, so a training week, a company closure and a public holiday are never read as the same thing.

Holidays from a country feed

Public holidays per country come in read-only from the feed that publishes them and sit in the same columns as the plan.

No employee record exposed

The absence list publishes aggregates; requests, reasons and balances stay in the HR system. The calendar cannot show what the source does not.

Scales for the year and for the week

Flat Year for the annual cycle, Month for placing check-ins and sessions, Week for the collision itself — same sources, same permissions.

Virto Calendar App

Put every people cycle on one screen

Integrations

Connect to the tools your teams use the most so everyone works seamlessly in one place.

Microsoft Teams
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Planner
Microsoft Outlook
Google Calendar
iOS Calendar
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Lists

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When Virto Calendar App fits — and when it does not

Real-life scenario
Best fit
Why it works
Performance reviews planned into a low-coverage week

Absence sits in one system, the talent calendar in another, and holidays in a third.

Absence load, learning events and public holidays are drawn on the same year, so a collision between a talent milestone and peak leave is visible while the date can still move. Use the same app in Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Teams.

Learning programmes, company closures and holidays in one year

L&D keeps its calendar, facilities keeps the closures, and the country holidays come from a feed.

All three are drawn on one year with their own categories, so a training week, a closure and a holiday are never read as the same thing.

Leave requests, approvals and who exactly is away
An HR or absence management system

Virto Calendar App shows how many are away per team. Requests, approvals, balances and reasons stay in the HR or absence system that owns them.

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