Time Off

The report suite has a new member: the Leave Balances report. It lets you assess employee leave hours across their holiday year for each leave type. You can see their starting allowance, any adjustments and the remaining allowance for the year, helping you to spot who might be running low and at risk of burnout, and who might need to pick up a few more hours.

To help you manage end-of-year leave allowance changes, we’ve added a smart new tool that automatically transfers an employee’s current and future leave requests from their previous policy’s default leave type to the new policy’s default leave type. This makes it easy to deduct allowances correctly when leave needs to be tracked under a different type, without the need for manual adjustments. Don’t worry, historical data remains unchanged and available for reporting.

With the upcoming changes to Statutory Sick Pay, accurately tracking employee absences and sickness has never been more important. To support this, we’ve introduced a new absence type in Shiftie: “Non Sickness (Authorised)”. This can be applied to absence records and easily filtered within absence reports, giving you clearer oversight and more accurate reporting.

We’ve also added a practical tool to help you calculate Bradford Factor scores, making it simpler to monitor attendance patterns and manage absence consistently and fairly. You can read more about this here.

Identifying employees who haven’t taken enough leave is an important part of supporting well-being and maintaining a healthy, productive team. On the Team Leave page, colour coding makes it easy to see who may be at risk of burnout and who’s maintaining a good balance of time off. With just a glance, you can take proactive steps to encourage rest and keep your team performing at their best.

It’s now easier to manage leave as the end of the leave year approaches. The Team Leave page now displays each employee’s leave policy start date, making it simple to see whose leave year is wrapping up. Quickly plan for the year ahead, make adjustments, or identify employees who need to use or be paid for their remaining leave hours, all at a glance.

Employees can now log absences in advance, not just retrospectively. Whether it’s a hospital appointment or planned recovery time, your team can easily schedule time off ahead, keeping everyone informed and your workflow up to date.

If you have lots of managers who are capable of approving all your teams' leave requests, you can now add them all as default leave approvers. With the ability to choose to always notify them when a leave request is added or only notify when the employee doesn’t have a leave approver set, you have more control in auditing your employees' time off.

The employee time-off interface has been reimagined, offering a more transparent and user-friendly breakdown of an individual's current leave entitlements and remaining balances.

Need to adjust the amount of leave a request has deducted from an employee’s allowance, or change the amount of paid hours? Leave managers can now change the hours per day the request covers when approving an employee’s leave request.

New leave type settings allow you to customise leave types with colours and icons for quicker identification, making it easier for managers to differentiate between booked leave on the schedule and timesheet views.