(Article under construction) Here we explain the setting options for the "Time Tracking" function (or "Check-In" in Switzerland).
Automatic Breaks
In the shift plan settings, it is possible to activate automatic break times. If no breaks are entered for an employee on a given day, the legally required break time will be automatically assumed. This makes sense if your employees reliably take their breaks at the correct duration spontaneously during the day, without wanting to schedule them in advance. However, we recommend planning fixed breaks or always entering breaks when they are taken spontaneously.
If the function is active, you can recognize this by the asterisk markings in the evaluation:
If you do not want this function, you can completely disable it in the Shift Plan Settings. If you only want to use this function in the shift plan but not in time tracking, you can activate the corresponding option in the Settings tab of time tracking:
Count Work Time Gaps as Work Time
If you represent breaks through 2 or more work times in the calendar as in the example on the right above, you have the option to decide how the recording behaves. In the "Settings" tab of time tracking, you will find the option "Work Time Gaps".
If this option is disabled, the full break time is always assumed, regardless of whether team members only log out and back in for 10 minutes during a one-hour break. So if you want the exact logged-in time to be calculated when using multiple work times, activate this option. If a team member does not log out during the gap at all, it will then be counted as overtime.