Time off tracking by your own leave rules

People request time off with their balance in view. Approvers decide from email, Slack or their phone, and balances update by your accrual and carry-over rules.

Time off tracking by your own leave rules

Approvals

Approvals with the balance and team in view

Each request goes to the right approvers in turn and shows them what they need to decide: the employee's balance and who else on the team is away.

See how approvals work in Slack
  • Balance and team availability on the request

    Approvers see the days available and requested, plus colleagues with the same manager who are already off on those dates.

  • Approval chains built from roles

  • Decisions from email, Slack or the mobile app

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Policies

Leave policies and automatic balances

Set accrual, carry-over and limits once for each leave type. PeopleForce updates balances on that schedule and logs every change in the employee's history.

  • Accrual, carry-over and maximum balance

    Accrue yearly, monthly or by another period, prorate for new joiners, carry over all, none or a set number of days, and cap the balance.

  • Extra days for length of service

  • Balance history for every employee

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Visibility

What employees, approvers and colleagues see

Mark a leave type as private, and its name stays with the employee, their approvers and HR, while the rest of the team only sees that the person is away.

Employees

Their own leave

Balances for each leave type, every request and the status it is in.

Approvers

Everything to decide

The request, the employee's balance, who else on the team is away and the leave type, private ones included.

Colleagues

Who is away and when

Shown on the timeline, the Home page and in Slack. Private leave types appear only as working or non-working.

Holidays

Public holidays and work schedules

Each location gets its country's public holidays from the PeopleForce calendar, with observed and compensated days. Requests skip holidays and each person's days off, in quarter-day steps.

Public holidays and work schedules

Who's out

Absence timeline and calendar sync

The timeline shows approved and pending leave month by month. Approved leave becomes an event in Google Calendar or Outlook, and Slack or Microsoft Teams channels get a daily who's out post.

Absence timeline and calendar sync

Mobile app

Time off in the PeopleForce mobile app

Employees check balances, request time off with a note or file, and follow its status. Approvers get a push notification and approve or reject from their phone.

Time off in the PeopleForce mobile app

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Leave sits on the same employee record as the rest of Core HR, so new hires, timesheets and reports use the same policies and balances.

Leave policies at hire

The New hire form assigns leave policies, so time off is set up before a new employee's first day.

Leave policies at hire

Approved leave in timesheets

With PeopleForce Time, approved leave fills the day in each timesheet as paid, unpaid or working time.

Approved leave in timesheets

Leave reports in Excel

Export leave used, requests, balances and policies to XLSX or CSV.

Leave reports in Excel

Imported starting balances

Bring balances and past requests over from Excel or CSV when you move to PeopleForce.

Imported starting balances

More in Core HR

Explore the rest of Core HR

Everything that works with the same leave data, from employee profiles and the team calendar to timesheets and reports.

Every employee in one record

Profiles with job, contact and personal details, where each person's Time off tab lives.

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Why HR teams choose PeopleForce

A dedicated team gets you live, real people keep answering after go-live, and there's room to add the rest of HR when you're ready.

Setup done with you

A dedicated success manager sets everything up with you — it's included in the plan, not a paid add-on.

Support in your language

Real people, not a ticket queue, from your first question onwards.

Room to grow

Start with Core HR and add recruiting or performance later — same employee record, no second system.

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Frequently asked

What is leave tracking software?

Can we set different leave rules for each country?

How can employees see how their balance was calculated?

How do employees change the dates of a request?

Can managers approve time off from Slack or Microsoft Teams?

Can we set rules for when and how people request leave?

Can we track work from home or business trips?

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