Setting up work from home can be done in two ways:
As a clocking event
As an absence event
To understand the difference between both types of events, please, check out the following article:
In this example, we are creating an absence event.
What do we need?
A category
defines the type of time we are trackingA clocking or absence event
the event used by employees to clock the timeA counter
counts the time so it is available on reports
Setting up a category:
Go to Settings >> Category Definitions and Add a new category:
Give it a name (work at home), set time to be counted as Paid and Presence status as Absent.
You can also choose an Icon that will be shown on the calendar and timeline views.
Setting up the absence event
Setting up a partial absence means the users will have to select the day of working from home and will have an additional option of adding start and end times if the absence doesn't take the whole day.
When defined as an absence, Employees will have to request work from home and have their requests approved by their managers or admins!
Setting up a counter and showing the result on reports
Go to Settings >> Global Time Rules >> Daily counters and add new counter:
Click edit on the counter and set it to count time instead of instances:
Now click Edit next to the Time period selection:
Now you can add sources and categories:
Add a source to your new counter with the following settings:
Now add a source category with the following settings:
You can now save the counter and access it on reports as well.