Vacation Schedule for 2027: Why Companies Should Start Preparing Now
In an article for RBC Companies, Ekaterina Malinovskaya, Project Manager at the Enterprise Automation Department of Cinimex, explains why companies should start preparing their 2027 vacation schedules in advance, what challenges large organizations face when planning employee vacations, and how automation on the 1C platform can reduce manual operations, speed up the approval process, and improve the efficiency of HR management.
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Ekaterina Malinovskaya
Project Manager
Traditionally, many organizations start preparing their vacation schedules for the following year in the fall. For large companies, this process often involves numerous approvals, changes to employees’ plans, and the need to take the interests of different departments into account. In practice, the main challenge is not so much creating the schedule itself as coordinating all the participants involved. As a result, preparing the schedule can take considerable time and require constant monitoring by HR specialists and managers.
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Modern digital tools, including solutions based on the 1C platform, make this process more transparent and manageable. Employees can plan their vacations themselves, managers can promptly review requests while taking their departments’ workloads into account, and HR teams get a single information environment for monitoring the schedule and preparing the necessary reports. This reduces the number of manual operations, helps prevent overlapping vacations of key employees, and speeds up management decision-making.
Another advantage is the ability to take into account not only HR requirements but also the company’s management objectives. A shared vacation calendar, notifications about changes, flexible approval workflows, and access rights management allow organizations to adapt the planning process to their specific needs without making it more complicated for users.
As companies face growing demands for greater efficiency in internal processes, digitalizing vacation management is becoming more than just a convenient service — it is an important tool for improving the quality of workforce planning. Automating routine operations frees up specialists’ time for more important tasks, while helping managers make decisions based on up-to-date information. The sooner a company gains a complete and accurate picture of employee availability, the easier it becomes to plan departmental workloads, allocate resources, and reduce operational risks. That is why preparing the vacation schedule for 2027 is a good opportunity to reconsider established approaches and assess the potential of modern solutions for HR process management.