In this administrator article you will learn how to set up Home office/remote work and activate it for your employees.
Table of content
1. Activate Home office/remote work
Allow your employees to work from home. Open the employee as Master administrator in the admin-menu "persons/persons" by double clicking on the persons name. In the employee-menu change to "Master data/roles and authorizations/ tab "authorizations" and activate the authorization "May request homeoffice/remote work". If needed, you can activate the authorization "Approve own Home office requests" for an automatic approval of home office/remote work requests.
With the activated authorization employee can submit home office/remote work requests in the menu "Time management/Home office" or "Time management/Remote work".
If you want to change authorizations for most or all employees at the same time, you can also do this via import. For more information read the following article.
Note: Home office/remote work requests get approved by assigned superior/approver same as absences requests.
2. Background settings
Basic settings of the function home office/remote work are given in the admin-menu "Time management/Absences/Settings/tab "Home office" or "Remote work". You can set the name of the function, cancellations, limitations and half day allowances.
Change to the tab "Export parameters" for including home office/remote work days in your absences reports. In the admin menu "Time management/Absences/Reports" you can create the report "absences overview" to evaluate home office/remote work days.
Change to the tab "Colors of absences" for editing the color of home office/remote work days in the calender view. Click on the colored checkbox for choosing a color.
