(Article under development) Here we explain the setting options for the "Time Tracking" function (or "Check-In" in Switzerland).
Automatic Breaks
In the schedule 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 in the correct duration spontaneously during the day without wanting to set them in advance. However, we recommend scheduling fixed breaks or always recording breaks when taken spontaneously.
If the function is active, you will recognize this by the asterisk markings in the report:
If you do not want this function, you can completely disable it in the Schedule Settings. If you want to use this function only in the schedule but not in time tracking, you can enable the corresponding option in the Settings tab of time tracking:
Count Work Time Gaps as Working Time
If you represent breaks with 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 "Work Time Gaps" option.
If this option is disabled, the full break time is always assumed, regardless of whether team members only log out and log back in for 10 minutes during a one-hour break. So if you want the exact logged time to be calculated when using multiple work times, enable this option. If a team member does not log out during the gap at all, it will then be counted as overtime.