Concept: Time Off in Workday Assistant

You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature depending on your organization's subscription service agreement. For more information, see this Community article.

Workers can use Workday Assistant to request time off, view time off balances, correct time off, and view holiday schedules. You can disable time off capabilities on the

Edit Tenant Setup - Assistant

task.

Workers can:

Enter time off for days in the past, present, and future.

Add comments to time off requests by clicking

Edit or add details

Correct and delete approved time off requests for future dates.

Group time off requests in absence tables.

When workers:

Request time off, Assistant recognizes date formats depending on users' preferred locales. Example: If an American worker enters 10/15/22 and a German worker enters 15.10.22, Workday Assistant interprets both time off requests correctly as October 15, 2022.

View their time off balances, Assistant displays up to 20 balances and provides a link to the Absence Calendar when they've more than 20.

You can enable workers to request time off by adding the Employee as Self
security group to these permissions in the Time Off and Leave functional area:

Initiating action permissions on the Request Time Off
business process.

Request Time Off (REST Service)

permissions on the Request Time Off
business process. You must configure this to enable workers to request time off in Assistant.

You can enable workers to correct time off by adding the relevant security group to the initiating action for the

Correct Time Off Entry (REST Service)

on the Correct Time Off
business process security policy.

Workday Assistant doesn't support:

Business process comments.

Consecutive-day time off requests that spans multiple time off types.

Time offs configured with

Start Time

and