OfficeStatus v2.0 is a major step forward forward in electronic in/out board software. One of the many powerful features it introduces is Return Time Assistance (also known as "Due Back" Assistance).

This capability uses the system's knowledge of each user's work schedule (there's also a default site-level work schedule) to dynamically compute potential return times during employee status change operations - saving employees precious time and improving accuracy. Here's a quick screen shot:



This new feature makes it trivial for users to specify when they'll be returning from their current status change. Now, with merely two button clicks, the user shown in the screenshot above can specify that they plan on returning to the office at the start of the next work day. This user's work schedule is then used to compute the precise date and time of their return.

And there's more - OfficeStatus Windows Client goes another step further and offers a new "Out & Returning" drop-down menu within the user status change window. This drop-down menu allows users to 1) specify that they're out of the office, 2) choose a computed return time as described above, and 3) close the status change window - all with only two mouse clicks!

Scheduled status changes (another feature new to OfficeStatus v2.0) can also use a subset of this computed date/time functionality to schedule status changes. More on scheduled status changes in a future blog.