Concept: Absence Calendar Experience

The Absence Calendar Experience simplifies absence requests by merging the tasks for requesting time off and leave of absence on desktop and mobile. You can manage absence requests using these reports, tasks, or related actions on a worker:

Manage Absence
Request Absence

When they request absence, workers can select from a combined list of time off and leave types, collectively known as absence types. They don't have to distinguish between time off or leave types. If you want workers to be able to distinguish between time off or leave types, you can configure absence type groups to group related absence types together.

The Absence Calendar Experience is consistent across desktop and mobile. You can configure access to the experience on the initiating actions of the respective business process security policies.

Business Process Security Policy	Initiating Action
Correct Time Off	Edit Time Off for a Worker Edit Time Off for Self
Request Leave of Absence	Request Leave for a Worker Request Leave for Self
Request Return from Leave of Absence	Request Return from Leave of Absence Return Worker from Leave
Request Time Off	Request Time Off for a Worker Request Time Off for Self

When requesting time off, workers can check their time off balances from the:

Balances
tab on the
Manage Absence
calendar.
View Balances
link in the
Request Absence
micro calendar and date range view.

You can manage the visibility of the balance view,

Request Absence

micro calendar, and

Comment

field when users request time off. You can control the visibility for all users, 1 or more security groups, or a specific group of workers who meet certain criteria.