Employee page: Attendance & Shifts

What this guide covers

The Attendance & Shifts tab sets when this employee is expected to work - the base schedule, the clocking terminal, and their weekly working pattern. It's the same schedule editor managers use on Manage schedules, but reached from the employee's record. A sibling Auto-clock tab (covered below) handles staff who don't badge and missing-punch backfills.

Who can edit: HR can edit the Base Schedule here (managers can't); the User Schedule (working pattern) uses the two-party propose-and-accept flow. Editing needs HR write.

Base Schedule

Primary Clocking Terminal - which device's scans count as working hours (default = any device). If set, scans at other terminals grant access but don't count as work.
Base Schedule (policy) - the rule set that carries the break, clock-in bands and overtime policy. HR can change this here; Save Base Schedule applies it.

User Schedule (the working pattern)

The recurring weekly pattern: Rotation Weeks (1 = a single repeating week; 2+ = a rotation) and a Reference Date, plus the day grid (working-day toggle + start/end times). Derived weekly scheduled hours and working hours (net of breaks) are shown.

Changing the recurring pattern is two-party: click Propose Edit (with a reason) and the employee accepts it - exactly as on Manage schedules. While a change is pending or upcoming, a banner shows and the grid is locked.

Auto-clock & backfill (the Auto-clock tab)

A separate Auto-clock tab on the employee page handles two situations where normal badging doesn't apply (both need HR write):

Auto-clock for executives/exempt staff - turn this on for someone who never badges (e.g. an executive), and myWork synthesises their daily clock-in/out from their schedule so they show as present in real time. It is opt-in per employee, never overwrites a real scan or an HR-locked day, and skips leave, public holidays and rest days.
Backfill clocking - fill in missing punches for one employee across a date range at a chosen clock-in/out time (for an offline reader or a forgotten clock). It is Mon-Fri, missing-only (never touches a fully-clocked day), and skips approved-leave and public-holiday days.

Good to know

Base Schedule is HR-only - it controls OT policy and bands across the role, so managers can view but not change it; this tab is where HR sets it.
The clocking terminal matters - if it's blank, the HR Health dashboard flags the hire until one is set; if it's wrong, scans won't count.
Recurring changes need the employee's acceptance - propose, don't impose (see Manage schedules for the full flow).
This is what attendance measures against - get it right and the hours/overtime on Manage hours come out correct.

Manage schedules - the manager-facing version of this editor + the two-party flow in full.
Schedule Management (HR) - the work-schedule templates and holidays behind the Base Schedule.
How working time is calculated - how the schedule becomes ordinary hours, overtime and pay.
The employee page (HR) - the overview of all tabs.