The direction from the Silvio call + review: people expect a real calendar, and the best fit is a MIX, a short strip of the near days you actually work in (one click), plus the full calendar one tap away for anything further. “Today” is faked as Jul 8 so you can see past context. Seats-left badges (number / FULL / dash = no tours).
Today + the next 6 days as tabs, then the 📅 button for anything beyond. The week they live in is one click; the rest is one tap into the real calendar. Simplest, forward-looking.
Shows a few past days (dimmed) plus today and the next few, because the office glances back as well as forward. 📅 for the long tail. This is the “you see the last 7 days too” version.
Same idea, squeezed to one short row of smaller tabs, so it eats the least vertical space above the board.
The whole month on the page, like a wall calendar, with seats-left per day. Most familiar and expected; costs the most vertical space. Good when the manager plans a whole month at once.
Best of both if there's room: the near-week strip for fast day-to-day, and the full month calendar beside it for jumping anywhere. Likely a desktop-only combo.
Same component, fewer near-day tabs on smaller screens; the 📅 calendar is always one tap, so no screen loses the ability to reach any date. Desktop shows the most days, mobile the fewest.
The first four options are still at calendar-v1 if you want to compare: A paginated window, B whole-month tabs, C calendar popover, D month pills + day row.