When you change someone's time off balance manually, either by increasing it or decreasing it, this can only be done in days.
If you wish to make a change that is less than a day, you must enter it as a decimal.
How to work out hours as a fraction of a working day
You work this out based on the employee's working hours per day for their time off policy.
Go to the employee's profile.
Click on the Reports.
Expand the relevant time off policy.
You can then see the working hours per day at the top.
The calculation you need is the following
(1 ÷ Y) x Z
Y = Working hours per day
Z = Number of hours you need to change the balance by
EXAMPLE
If an employee's default working day is 7 hours, this means 7 hours equals 1 day. Half a day would be 0.5
If you want to increase their time off balance by 3 hours, you would divide 1 by 7, then multiply it by 3.
(1 ÷ 7) x 3 = 0.428571
The amount of decimal places you enter is affected by what you have set in Settings > General > Number of digits shown after comma.
If set to 4, instead of entering 0.428571 when changing the balance, you would enter 0.4286.
Below is an example of what 7 hours as decimals would look like in a calculation. You would then need to round up relevant to your number of digits settings.
Hours | Decimal |
0.25 (15min) | 0.035714 |
0.5 (30mins) | 0.071429 |
1 | 0.142857 |
1.5 (1h 30mins) | 0.214286 |
2 | 0.285714 |
2.5 (2h 30mins) | 0.357143 |
3 | 0.428571 |
3.5 (3h 30mins) | 0.5 |
4 | 0.571429 |
4.5 (4h 30mins) | 0.642857 |
5 | 0.714286 |
5.5 (5h 30mins) | 0.785714 |
6 | 0.857143 |
6.5 (6h 30mins) | 0.928571 |
7 | 1 |