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If you want to use Excel to track PTO for your company, you don’t have to start from scratch. Many businesses have created free templates you can use that make it easy to calculate PTO accruals and see when employees are scheduled for time off. In this post, we’re going to share our five favorite free Excel PTO tracker templates, share the benefits and disadvantages of tracking PTO in Excel, and introduce you to a better option for PTO tracking.

Get a jump start on creating schedules in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Microsoft Word, or Google Docs with these 28 free employee work schedule templates. We’ve provided lots of options for different scheduling types — including monthly, weekly, and daily options — as well as options for scheduling employees by location, project, or position.

In this post, we’re going to walk you through an eight-step process for how to make a schedule for employees in Microsoft Excel. We’ll also share a few free Excel templates you can use to get started and highlight some of the benefits and disadvantages of using Excel for creating employee schedules. Related: You might also like our guides on how to make an employee schedule in Google Sheets and how to create an employee schedule in Google Calendar.

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Hubstaff is an employee time tracking app that offers every feature you could ever possibly want from your time tracking software. Naturally, you can use it to track employees’ hours. But you can also use it to see what apps and URLs employees visited while working, where they traveled while clocked in, and how often they were idle while billing time.

Overtime is one of the costliest labor expenses a business can have. Overtime hours, mandated by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to be paid at a rate of at least one and a half times an employee’s regular rate of pay, can quickly add up. Furthermore, failing to be accurate when it comes to tracking overtime hours leaves you legally liable, since the FLSA requires employers to maintain accurate records of all employee time worked and wages paid.