Leave management
Policies in days or hours with accrual rules, a live balance for every employee, requests that go straight to the right manager, a team calendar, and a personal calendar feed for Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar.
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The moment a request is approved, the employee's balance reflects it. No monthly recount.
Each request is routed to the employee's manager for a decision — nobody forwards emails.
Approved leave shows on the team calendar, and each person gets an ICS feed of their own time off and holidays for Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar.
Capabilities
Set the rules once; HourSquare keeps the balances and the calendar honest.
Define each leave type as a policy: in working days or hours, how it accrues, whether it is paid and whether half days are allowed. Start the leave year in January, on a date you choose or on each person's hire anniversary, and prorate it for part-timers by their contract hours.
Every employee sees what they have left. Managers see it too before they approve.
Requests land with the employee's manager, who approves or declines in one place.
See who is away and when on the team calendar. Subscribe to your own feed from your calendar app so your time off and holidays show up next to your meetings.
Working days and the first day of the week are set per workplace, so a request counts only the days that person would have worked.
Load your country's public holidays, pick the states, cantons or provinces that apply, mark any day as not a day off here, and add your own. Holidays show on the team calendar and never count as leave.
How it flows
The path a leave request takes through HourSquare, in four steps.
Create policies with their accrual rules, or start from statutory defaults where there are some for your country, and assign them to employees.
They pick a policy and dates and see their balance before sending.
The request is routed to the employee's manager, who decides in HourSquare.
The balance changes the moment the request is approved, and the days appear on the team calendar and in the employee's calendar feed.
Works with
Approved leave shows on timesheets and flows into the pay run for that period.
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