Creating a Working Week

The purpose of the Working Week feature in Spark is to establish a structured and efficient schedule for managing employee working hours and availability. By defining the working week within the platform, organizations can:

• Standardize Scheduling - establish a constant framework for defining days and hours during which the employees will be expected to be available for work.
• Manage Availability - employers can easily communicate the days and times when employees should be present or reachable, ensuring alignment with business operations.
• Time Tracking - track employee working hours, calculate attendance,  overtime, and compensation based on the established schedule.
• Leave Management - organizations can integrate the working week with leave management, ensuring that employee leave requests are assessed against their scheduled working hours, promoting fairness and accurate leave calculations.
  
• Resource Planning - businesses can better plan and allocate resources, projects, and tasks when they have a clear understanding of employee availability within the established working week.
  
• Communication - when the working week is defined, especially nowadays, when most organizations work with hybrid mode, it's much easier to establish communication among team members and, accordingly, use the time in a more efficient way.
  

To create a Working Week:

1. Go to Settings ⚙ and navigate to the Leave and Attendance section → Working Week.
2. Click the + Add button, and create a new template.
3. Enter the Name of the working week template; choose Start day from the dropdown, by using the toggles select the weekdays, and specify working hours if needed.
• Remember to save the settings to proceed to the next sections.
4. You can assign Branch Offices to the working week and even assign specific Employees.
• To assign a branch office: Click the Add button within the "Branch Offices" block, select the branch name from the dropdown list, and then set the effective date.


• To assign employees: Click the Add button in the "Employees" block. From the list, you can either select individual employees by checking the box next to their name or choose to select all employees. After making your selections, click Next to proceed and set the effective date for their assignment.

Note: You can delete branches and employees, edit employee details, and view modifications. These actions are performed using the respective icons.

Congratulations! You have successfully completed the first step of Leaves and Attendance! Stay tuned to learn how to create Time Offs and add Public Holidays to the organization calendar.