The Working hours counter is mainly used in the payroll export. It counts the planned hours (for example 8 hours a day) and subtracts all absences from them. This gives you the hours an employee actually worked according to their schedule.

1. Go to Settings › Global Time Rules, select the Counters tab and click Add.

2. In the Add window, enter the Rule Name “Working hours”, select Time value as the Rule Value Type, leave Type set to daily and click Save.

3. On the counter page, click the edit icon in the Configuration section.

4. Under Sources, click Add, select the source Plan and the method Add, and click Save. The counter now gets the planned hours for each day.

5. For each absence that reduces working hours, click Add again. Select the source Absence, choose the absence in the Name field (for example Annual leave), select the method Subtract and click Save.

Once you have added all absences, the counter has one source with the Add method (the plan) and several sources with the Subtract method:

Important: If you create a new absence type later, add it to this counter as well, otherwise it will not be subtracted from working hours.

6. Click Save at the bottom of the page. In the Period selection window, choose from when the counter applies (for example From the beginning of time) and click Save.

All Hours then calculates the counter automatically. To include it in the payroll export, add it in the payroll settings (Payroll export). More about counter settings: Creating daily counters.