Flexible management of employee leave

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Enabled for Public preview General availability
Users by admins, makers, or analysts Nov 11, 2022 Mar 17, 2023

Business value

This feature provides organizations with the ability to manage employee leave in more detail to meet company and regulatory policies.

Feature details

Managing leave in an organization can be complex, especially in organizations where employees are spread across the globe. Much of leave management is driven by regulatory policies in different countries in combination with the companies' leave policies.

This feature provides more flexibility around the management of leave requests:

10.0.31 Release

  • Open-ended leave - Allow employees, managers, and HR to submit leave requests with an estimated return date while creating a leave request and update a confirmed return date later.
  • Return to work notice - Enable organizations to require documentation from employees when returning to work after a specific type of absence.

10.0.32 Release

  • Inclusion of weekends and holidays - Provide organizations with the flexibility to include weekends and holidays as part of employee leave requests for certain leave types.
  • Hide leave balances - Provide organizations with the flexibility of hiding leave balances for certain leave types.
  • Other enhancements - Flexibility to manage and approve leave of absence requests and in mandating attachments.

Open-ended leave request

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See also

Leave and absence overview (docs)