Leave requests lost on WhatsApp

“Can I take Thursday off?” The message goes to the manager on WhatsApp, gets buried under fifty others, and nobody answers. A week later nobody remembers who asked, who said yes, or how many leave days the person still has. In many companies leave is not a policy problem; it is a lost-message problem.

One place to ask

In Zyntra OS a person asks for leave in one place: + Apply for leave on the Leave tab, or + Request Time Off on My Space, which opens the same form. Or they simply tell Flowrica: her Request leave asks the same questions one at a time.

Before sending, they see how many days they have left. Pressing that line shows how it is made: entitled, carried in, taken, waiting for approval and left.

The manager decides, and the person reads why

• Approvals: the request waits in the manager’s Approvals tab, which lists what is waiting for a decision.
• My Space: the same requests reach the approver on My Space, in Flowrica’s card of things waiting for approval.
• Approve or refuse: the manager approves, or refuses and says why. The person reads the reason on their request.
• More days than are left: when the leave comes out of an entitlement, a request for more days than are left is refused, and the refusal shows the sums.

Every step, screen by screen, is in the user guide: Request and approve leave.

Where do leave requests live in your company today?

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