Available for the following HR plans: Standard, Premium, Platinum
Available for the following user access levels: Manager, Admin
Employment Hero’s Leave and Timesheet Reporting suite centralises your workforce's time and attendance data, taking the guesswork out of accurate payroll and resource planning. By moving away from manual tracking and paper forms, you save hours of admin time each week and stop costly payment mistakes. This simple, modern approach allows you to identify trends, verify payment queries instantly, and export data for external analysis—giving you and your team total confidence in your records.
This article explains the following:
- Why use our Leave and Timesheets reports?
- Quick Launch video
- Getting started with Leave and Timesheets reporting
- Pro tips to maximise value
- Related features
Why use our Leave and Timesheets reports?
Data-driven insights
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.
Accurate dispute resolution
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.
Simplified compliance
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.
Quick Launch video
Getting started with Leave and Timesheets reporting
Step 1: Generating leave reports
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:
Helpful Hint
The report includes a visual chart that updates in real-time as you apply filters. Use this to quickly spot spikes in leave requests during holiday seasons or specific months.
Step 2: Generating timesheet reports
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
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Helpful Hint
You can hover over the comments icon in the timesheet report to quickly see any notes left by employees or managers without needing to open each individual submission.
Pro tips to maximise value
- 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.
Related features
Once you've 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.
Helpful Hint
Timesheets can also be approved based on worksites and positions (Platinum and Unlimited plans, or as a Time & Attendance add-on).