Free Excel Staff Holiday Planner

An easy downloadable Excel template for organising employee holidays in 2024 and 2025.

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What's the best way to plan staff holidays in an Excel spreadsheet?

Here at WorkSmarter, our users tell us they love our smart online staff holiday planner, which saves them time and simplifies managing employee leave. Whilst we think our online holiday planner service is an excellent choice for growing businesses, we understand not every company is ready to move their holiday requests online just yet.

That's why we've created this completely free staff holiday planner Excel template, suitable for holiday years beginning in 2024 or 2025.

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Use the form below to customise the Excel template to meet your needs.

We'll send you a download link to access your custom template.

Open the file in Excel — and you're ready to go!

Looking for something more flexible?

Our Excel staff leave template is a great way to get started, but we know most growing companies prefer to manage their employee holidays online eventually. When that time comes, we've got you covered.

WorkSmarter offers a smart online staff holiday planner service, too:

Flexible holiday entitlements can be customised across multiple years, and entitlements can be pro-rated for new employees.

A shared online holiday calendar gives your team full visibility in to who's off and when — and syncs with your computer and smartphone calendar, too.

Simple notifications keeps management informed, and highlights schedule conflicts automatically — making the approval process much more transparent.

And much more! Why not find out more about our online staff holiday planner?

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If you need more advanced staff holiday planning features, don't miss our online staff holiday planner.

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Customise Your Excel Leave Planner Template

Your company name Your company name Your company name
Total employees Total employees Total employees
Holiday year start month Holiday year start month Holiday year start month
Holiday entitlement (days per year) Holiday entitlement (days per year) Holiday entitlement (days per year)
Normal working days Normal working days Normal working days
Public Holidays Public Holidays Public Holidays
Your name Your name Your name
Your email address Your email address Your email address

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Managing holidays and absences across our team is so much easier than before.”

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