Patent ID: 8886732

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, configuration data for managing a calendar of out-of-office events for an organization, wherein the configuration data includes holiday settings, manager notification settings, and organizational settings; receiving, by the computing device, information for multiple employee out-of-office events, wherein the information for each of the multiple employee out-of-office events includes an employee name, a defined time period for the out-of-office event, and a sub-group for the employee name; storing, by the computing device, the configuration data and the information for the multiple employee out-of-office events; receiving, by the computing device, a request to present an out-of-office calendar for a portion of the organization; and sending, by the computing device and to a user device, a user interface for a calendar with the stored information for the multiple employee out-of-office events that is responsive to the request to present the out-of-office calendar, wherein the user interface includes a data selection menu with an organizational structure that allows a user to select, based on the configuration data, a particular sub-group within the organization for which to present, on the calendar, particular employee out-of-office events, of the multiple employee out-of-office events, that are associated with the particular sub-group, and wherein the calendar includes, for each given day on the calendar, a summary of employee out-of-office events, of the multiple employee out-of-office events, that are applicable to the particular sub-group, along with holidays that are applicable to employees of the particular sub-group.