Schedule

This is where you link a work schedule to the employee for recording purposes. Choose from Schedule by calendar, Fixed schedule or No schedule.

If an employee has the attendance status Absent, then that absence will be calculated based on the new schedule/calendar as of the date when the absence started. A warning appears, but you can still change the setting.

The message also tells you that you can switch period in the Switch Absence Code/Period procedure in order to create an interruption in the absence, before you change the schedule setting. That way the absence will be registered against the initial schedule/calendar up to the period switch, and after that against the new one.

Schedule by Calendar

A schedule calendar contains a particular schedule for each day of the year, including national holidays and other exceptions from the regular work week.

If you use shift work, you must use a schedule calendar to make sure that the working hours automatically shift during different weeks. This is the most usual setting for employees who perform attendance recording.

Fixed Schedule

If you are using a Fixed schedule, it will not take any special holidays into consideration. Recording is performed against this fixed schedule every day of the year, which means that you also use the same overtime schedule for all the weeks. All work recording and clocking in and out is performed as usual, but you cannot report any absence or overtime.

It may be appropriate to use a 24-hour schedule for those employees that have very irregular working hours, and that do not report any overtime but still have fixed times for coffee breaks etc. One example would be the cleaning staff or machine that uses machine recording.

No Schedule

This is used just like a fixed schedule, but here you cannot enter any fixed breaks for your employees.

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