Ask Slashdot: Open Source Employee Vacation-Day Tracking Software?

First time accepted submitter sprior writes "I'm looking for preferably open source software that a business would use to track vacation/sick days for employees and so far have come up empty. I found WaypointHR which looks defunct and I'm looking at OrangeHRM which looks half defunct, half bait and switch, and half strange in general with a bunch of website bugs thrown in. Along the way I've seen a couple of other OS projects which look defunct as well. I realize that a solution might be more than just vacation tracking because once you configure the employee info for a company you tend to want to use that for more than one thing. Paid solutions are a possibility."

Calendar?

[should_be_linear]

We use Google Calendar for this. It has nice API, which we don't even need (only 20 employees).

Don't track it

[cryfreedomlove]

Hire adults and let them self manage how much time they need off. They won't abuse it, they'll love you, and you can avoid this complex project.

you need open source?

[fitteschleiker]

Why the fuck you need open source? You aren't going to modify it, you just think open source is synonymous with free.
My company uses its book keeping / payroll software to do this, but from reading the comments here, apparently america doesnt have humane
vacation / sick days forced upon employers, I guess its that "free market" thing that works so well...

Re:More info needed

[LordNightwalker]

Or instead of reinventing the wheel, try something like OpenERP which has an HR module that does this already. Disclaimer: I work for them.