Out of office coverage designation

[Laura_Giannola1]

We love the out-of-office setting function that currently exists, but would like to see if it possible to enhance this function by also allowing the person who is out of office to set another team member as their designated coverage during the out-of-office time.

Would ideally love for it to:

1. Show on the profile display view for who to reach out to for OOO coverage, such as: Laura Giannola (away through Sep 13, covered by Kelsey)
2. Tag the designated coverage team member anytime the out-of-office team member is tagged.

Similar to this topic, but that thread doesn’t have vote functionality for the feature. I do also see the ability to write a rule on an individual user basis to add a collaborator, but we would like to see this from a global setting vs individual rule.

Thanks,
Laura

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Note: Not a solution but marked as such to elevate a key reply

@Laura_Giannola1,

Until/if Asana offers this, a good set of practices, which workaround the request too, is found here:

Best ways to deal with an employee on PTO in Asana

When our assistant Julie decided to take 2 weeks off, we had 2 choices: curl up on the floor and cry, or get our hands dirty and discuss how to make sure nothing falls through the cracks in her absence. Here’s the list of things to do we came up with: choose who will be monitoring Julie’s tasks in her absence, and have that person creates a daily recurring task to check her My Tasks make sure Julie shared her My Tasks with this person, so we can triage things in her absence have Julie c…

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Thanks,

Larry

[Laura_Giannola1]

Thanks, Larry! Definitely a good set of workarounds on that list until a native functionality can be added to Asana for this.