How do I change employee settings?

Go to: Dashboard > Employees > Employee Settings in the Atlas portal.

Default Time off Unit
Set whether employees request holidays in days or hours.

Vacation Entitlement
Define the standard vacation allowance for all employees (excluding bank holidays).

Resubmit Limit
Choose how many times an employee can re-request a time off request for the same day after it’s been declined.

Escalation Limit
Set how many management levels a time off request can escalate to if the line manager is unavailable.

Days Per Week
Enter the average number of days per week your employees work.

Exclude Lunch Duration (in hours)
Decide if lunch breaks should be deducted from time off and absences requested in hours. Set the standard lunch duration here.

Allow Vacation to Be Carried Forward
Enable this to let employees carry unused holiday into the next year. Set the maximum amount, units (days/hours), and how long employees have to use carried-forward days.

Employee Can Add an Absence
Allow employees to request absences.

Employee Can View Absence History
Let employees see approved absences on the team calendar.

Employee Can Add a time off request
Allow employees to request holidays.

Employee Can Request Excess time off
Permit employees to request more holidays than their entitlement.

Allow Employee Time off Requests Only in Default Units
Restrict employees to requesting time off only in their default unit (days or hours).

Show Gender Field
Decide if gender is visible to users with access to employee records.

Leaver Information Retention Period
Set how long to keep records for employees who have left. After this period, Atlas deletes all data and documents for the former employee.

Enable Lieu time
Allow managers to record and manage Time Off in Lieu.

Employee Can Request TOIL
Let employees view accrued TOIL and submit TOIL requests for approval.