Adding an absence

Updated 2 weeks ago by Daniel Sjögren

You need to open the Add absence side panel to add an absence. You can do this in two different ways. You can navigate to it either by clicking the + icon > Absence

or, you can click on an employee's shift in the schedule, and then click More options > Add absence:

Both of these methods open the Add absence side panel where you can enter all relevant absence information for an employee.

Mandatory fields are indicated with an asterisk *.

To add an absence:

  1. Select the employee for whom you want to add an absence.
  2. Add the date and times of the absence. Tick the All day box if the absence is for one entire day, 24 hours.
  3. Select an absence type.
  4. You can select whether the absence should be attested by the employee, manager, or both. Depending on your settings, the employee to whom the absence relates may need to attest the absence before the manager is able to do so. 
  5. You can view the Time Trackers set up for the employee. Read more about Time Trackers here.
  6. Enter an absence schedule, if necessary. Read more about absence schedules here.
  7. Add an optional comment.
  8. Click Save.
It's possible to add an absence after an employee's end date has passed.

Example: Today is the 3rd of September. Employee X's last date to work was the 2nd of September. It's possible to go to a date when the employee was still employed and add an absence.
It’s possible to change the absence type in an absence where absence scheduling is used. It’s not possible to change the absence schedule in an existing absence (in that case you need to create a new absence). 
Employees are notified when the date or time of an existing absence is changed (given the manager hasn't paused notifications).

It is possible to create an absence with a duration of up to 24 months.

Part time absence

When selecting the part time absence option, Quinyx offers two possibilities of handling the splitting of existing shifts. You can either split the absence per shift or split it per day.

Split per shift

In the example below we will for simplicity add a part time absence for an employee that has a single shift:

When you add an absence and enter a part time percentage, you will be presented with the option Split per shift:

After you have selected to split per shift, these options will be presented in the drop-down where you select what should happen with the shift(s):

You can then select whether the absence should be at the beginning of the shift or at the end and what will happen with the shift(s) during the times the employee is absent (delete, unassign).

Keep the start of the day: The absence will be added to the shift(s) in the end of the day based on the selected percentage.

Keep the end of the day: The absence will be added to the shift(s) in the beginning of the day based on the selected percentage.

Split per day

In the example below, we will add a part time absence for an employee that has two shifts per day on three days:

When you add an absence and enter a part time percentage, you will also be presented with the option Split per day:

When you've selected to split the shifts per day, these options will be presented in the drop-down where you select what should happen with the shifts:

Keep the start of the day: The absence will be added to the shifts at the end of the day based on the selected percentage.

Keep the end of the day: The absence will be added to the shifts at the beginning of the day based on the selected percentage.

Once you've selected one of the options above and saved, the absence will be added and your shift will be split accordingly:

When selecting split per day, it’s not possible to choose different actions for different days. All days will be split the same.
Note that Quinyx doesn't support keep and reassign options when splitting a shift per day for part time absences.

Quick add

You can quickly add an absence in the Schedule view by clicking the + icon beside the date on a shift and then Add absence.

Absence visualized in Schedule

Absence in Schedule is visualized differently in the actual schedule depending on whether or not a shift is affected by the absence.

When having a section selected in the group selector, then the only absences and absence requests that will display are those of employees that have a role (member/inherited member) on the section and whose home unit is also the unit of the section in question.

Absence with an absence shift

An absence with an absence shift displays both the absence and the previously scheduled shift:

The above behaviour only applies when the absence shift is located on the unit currently selected in the Quinyx group selector. If the absence shift is located on another unit, then currently that absence shift will only display as unavailability - both on the current unit and on the other unit.
The salary information of absence shifts on other units will display in the time card of the unit they de facto take place on.

Absence without an absence shift

An absence without an absence shift displays the absence type only:

Future absences

There are certain situations when future absences display differently. Future absences are greyed out when:

  • An employee doesn't have an active agreement.
  • Attest into the future is off.
Watch a short video tutorial about absence management here!
Read more about using APIs related to Punches & Payroll data here.

How Did We Do?