Book, Approve, and Track Holidays and Events
Manage all leave types, automate entitlement calculations, set your own approval rules, and give employees an easy way to request time off. AI analysis helps you stay on top of availability, trends, and staffing risks.
Track Holidays and Entitlements
Keep on top of holiday allowances, leave entitlements, TOIL, and more – and get up-to-date stats and analytics on your workforce, to see things like who has used up most of their leave, which teams may need to book some, and what upcoming events may impact your calendar.
Custom Leave Types
Go beyond holidays, maternity and bereavement leave, by creating your own types of custom leave – and deciding whether or not it comes out of an entitlement. Birthday leave, duvet days, charity events and jury service are all examples of custom leave created by Sense HR customers!
Approval Workflows
Specify who should approve each different leave request, whether that's a line manager, a senior colleague, or a company director. Design multi-approver workflows that send the request to more than one person, and even trigger other events within your HR system upon approval or denial.
Manage Every Type of Leave for Every Single Person
Whether you’re simply tracking statutory entitlements, or creating your own types of leave with custom rules and multiple approvers, all leave types can be customised, calculated, tracked and managed with Sense HR.
Calendar View
See who is off at a glance, and filter by team, department, location or job type, for quick insights.
One-Click Approvals
Managers can approve requests directly from email, Slack, mobile, or their Sense HR dashboard.
Automatic Entitlements
Auto-calculate accruals in line with UK statutory entitlement, or customise company allowances.
Multi-Level Approvals
Require multiple approvers for leave requests, such as line manager, HR, and office manager.
Locked Dates
Stop leave requests coming in for busy days, weeks, or even months. Lock days by team or role.
Carry-Over Rules
Set how much entitlement should carry over between years, or run a use-it-or-lose-it policy.
TOIL
Track hours that need to be credited as time-off-in-lieu, and auto convert hours into entitlements.
Mobile App
Request or approve leave from anywhere, with the Sense HR mobile app with custom permissions.
Multi-Country
Support for different statutory rules on a per-country basis, with configurable bank holidays.
Calendar Integrations
Integrate holiday and leave data with external tools, to ensure your different systems are all joined up. Ready-made integrations for systems like Google or Microsoft calendars make syncing easy, or you can build any custom connection you like using Sense Automate.
AI Support
Analyse holiday and other leave patterns, by asking your HR assistant AMI. AMI can answer questions about things like who is off, which teams have a high outstanding holiday balance, and whether you might have staffing issues coming up – things traditional reports may miss.
Locked Days
Create locked days to stop people booking holidays or other leave types, for example to protect busy days where you know you'll need all hands on deck. You can decide which types of workers locked days apply to, and you can even lock full weeks, seasons or months!
Employee Self Service
Give your workers an easy way to view their calendars, check their entitlements, see their upcoming leave, check who else is off, and of course, submit holiday requests for approval. The Sense HR mobile app gives each worker features and tools approved by you, that they can access anywhere.
Custom Holiday Rules
Decide how you want holiday rules to work, and set them company-wide, or per team, job role, or department. For example, you might want employees to request holidays by the hour, or you might want to give different job types different entitlements, or you may have different approval rules.
Select Pre-Built Leave Types
or create your own
Annual Leave
Your standard holiday allowance – statutory, plus whatever is in your contract – with auto-accrual.
Parental Leave
Maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave, and more, with statutory pay auto-calculated.
Jury Service
Register time off for serving on a jury, with custom rules such as paid or unpaid, per your policy.
Compassionate
Give time off for bereavement, family emergencies, and more. Use discretion, or per your policy.
Study Leave
Time off for exam days, study days or personal development days, with built-in approval workflows.
TOIL
Calculate time-off-in-lieu based on qualifying overtime, and auto-convert to a person's leave balance.
Sabbatical
Give employees configurable long-service leave for hitting special milestones with your company.
Unpaid Leave
Let people request unpaid time off, with salary deductions automatically calculated.
Bank Holidays
Use standard templates set by region, or set your own bank holidays by team or department.
Volunteering
Allow for charity days, fund raising, or time off for good causes, and track contributions.
Training
Give time off for off-site courses, conferences, or other types of training – different to study leave.
Custom Leave
Design any type of leave you wish to give out, and set the rules, approvals and entitlements.
Holidays and Events Connect to the Rest of Your HR System
See Sense holiday management on your team.
2-minute video or 20-minute demo. Free implementation included.