The old Employee Portal had the option to show a calendar view with approve time off for employees in the same department as each other. The New EE Portal has moved away from this, and instead shows a "Others with Approve Time" only when the employee is actually making a request that crosses the same time as another employee's approve time off. This makes the approve time off for other employees not nearly as visible to employees when they are planning their time off. More importantly, it totally removes a shared calendar that employees can reference to see who is off on a particular day.
I would love to see the Department Time Off Calendar return to the New Employee Portal in some way. One thought would be to include the data on the Schedule Tab Calendar, similar to how the employees can see their own personal time off? Maybe color code days that have aother approved time off, and then you can tap on the day to see a list of the employee names?
Employee time off calendar was in the latest update to the new employee portal.