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Create and add new breaks to your employees work schedules and shifts

Ensure that your employees take the required breaks by law while also making sure they don't take excessively long breaks. Compliance with labor laws and maintaining productivity are top priorities

 

 

How to add breaks

  1. On your sidebar, go to Settings → Time
  2. Click on Time Categories
  3. Scroll down until Break types
  4. Click on “New break type”
  5. A pop-up modal will appear:
    1. Write down the name of the break you are creating
    2. Choose the type: Paid break, or Unpaid break
  6. Click on Save

 

Breaks types cannot be deleted, they can only be archived. This is irreversible and its name cannot be reused for new break types.

 

 

How to archive break types

  1. Click three dots next to the selected Break type, and select Archive
  2. Click Archive once you are sure, as this action is irreversible

 


 

Adding breaks to shifts

Add multiple breaks to shifts. Indicating if they are paid or not

 

 

If you want to add a break to an existing shift:

  1. Select the shift you want to add breaks
  2. Click Edit shifts in the upper right corner
  3. In the Shift section, click on add breaks
  4. Select the break you previously created
  5. Choose between:
    1. Flexible
    2. Semiflexible: breaks with a duration
    3. Fixed: breaks with a specific start and end time
  6. Click on edit shift to save

 


 

Breaks and Time tracking

Enable breaks in Time Tracking

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Scroll down until Time
  3. Select Time Tracking
  4. Choose the policy you want to add breaks
  5. Click on the Breaks section
  6. Enable breaks

All of the breaks you have created will appear here, enable the ones you want

 

 

Adding breaks to an employee’s timesheet

  1. From your side-bar menu, go to Time Tracking
  2. Select an employee
  3. Choose a date, and click on + Add
  4. Fill in the Shift information, and add a Break
  5. Click in Apply

Track your employee’s effective worked time

 

 By using Breaks in Time Tracking, you'll be able to track your employees' productive work hours and monitor the breaks that have taken.

 

 

How to register a break from your desktop

From the Clock in widget

  1. From your Dashboard
  2. Go to the Clock-in section
  3. Click on Break
  4. Choose between the types of breaks you previously created. For example: Coffee break
  5. Once your break is over, click on Go back to work

Keep in mind that to register for a break you must be clocked in

 

 

From the timesheet

  1. From your sidebar menu
  2. Go to Clock in
  3. Choose the day in which you want to add the break
  4. Click in + Add
  5. Select Break
  6. Fill in the time and the Type of break
  7. Click in Apply

 

How to register a break from your mobile app

  1. From the Clock-in section
  2. Click on Break
  3. Choose between the types of breaks you previously created. For example: Coffee break
  4. Once your break is over Slide to Get Back to work

 

The employee will get an alert if the break doesn’t comply with the defined policy.

 

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