Eliminate manual data entry, email back-and-forth, and paper forms. Employees submit requests directly via the app, and managers approve them with a single click.

Use the smart team calendar view to instantly see who is away before approving requests. This ensures your organisation maintains optimal staffing levels at all times.

If your organisation is payroll-connected, approved leave flows directly into your integrated payroll platform. This ensures accurate leave balance tracking, error-free pay runs, and full legal compliance.

Set up your organisation's specific leave types, such as annual leave, personal leave, or unpaid leave. Define baseline rules and ensure your leave types align with your payroll setup.

Guide: Manage leave categories

Assign managers and direct reports so leave requests are automatically routed to the right person. Configure notification preferences to alert managers immediately upon submission.

Guides:

• Set up management reporting lines
• Approve and decline leave requests

Introduce your team to the Employment Hero Work mobile app. Employees can check their real-time leave balances, select date ranges, attach supporting documents (like medical certificates), and submit requests in seconds.

Guides:

• Submit, view, and edit leave
• View your leave balances on the EH Work

• Use the Team Calendar view - Encourage managers to always check the smart team calendar before approving leave to prevent concurrent absences in critical roles.
• Require supporting documentation - Set rules requiring attachments for specific leave types (such as medical certificates for sick leave) to streamline compliance.
• Enable self-service balances - Keep your payroll integration active so employees can view their own up-to-date accruals, drastically reducing queries to HR.
• Leverage company holiday schedules - Pre-load public holidays into your platform so leave calculations automatically exclude non-working days.

Once you have got Leave Management running smoothly, explore these features to build an even stronger HR ecosystem:

• Timesheets - Automatically track working hours and integrate submitted time logs directly into pay runs alongside approved leave.
• Rostering - Build team schedules with real-time visibility into approved leave to prevent shift conflicts.
• Custom workflows - Create custom automated notifications or approval chains for specialised leave types.

Quickly identify trends in leave categories or specific time periods. Visualisations and charts help you see at a glance how leave is being taken across your organisation.

Easily resolve employee pay concerns by reviewing historical timesheet data, including specific work types and manager comments. This helps ensure everyone is paid correctly for the work they do.

Monitor approval statuses and filter results to ensure all leave and time data is processed and documented before payroll deadlines. With this, manual errors and oversight will be reduced.

To understand your team's availability and leave history, you can generate a Leave Taken report. This provides a digital audit trail of every leave request, which you can filter by date, category, or approval status.

Guide: Create a leave taken report

The article also covers how to:

• Filter leave reports by category and status
• Download and export leave data

Timesheet reports allow you to drill down into the specific hours worked by your employees. You can easily filter by employee name, cost centre, or work type to verify data before exporting it for payroll.

Guide: Create an employee timesheet submission report

The article also covers how to:

• Filter timesheets by employee or cost centre
• Download and export timesheet data

• Track trends from day one - Set your date range to the start of the year to compare month-on-month leave trends. This helps in planning for peak periods where your team might need more coverage.
• Use "Pending" filters for payroll readiness - Before running payroll, filter your reports by "Pending" status to ensure no outstanding leave or timesheets are left unapproved, preventing back-pay issues.
• Export for external audits - If you need to provide data for external accounting or compliance audits, use the 'Download' or 'Export' function to generate a CSV file of your filtered results. This keeps your internal platform data secure while providing the necessary evidence.
• Identify overworked teams - Use the Cost Centre filter in Timesheet reports to see which departments are consistently logging high hours. This data can justify new hires or help redistribute workloads before burnout occurs.

Once you have got Leave and Timesheet Reporting running smoothly, explore these features to build an even stronger overview of your workforce:

• Leave management - The central hub for approving and declining individual leave requests as they come in.
• Timesheet management - Review and process daily or weekly timesheets to ensure they are ready for reporting and payroll.