How to

How to request a half-day

Half-days are handled properly: a half-day costs 0.5 against your balance rather than being rounded up to a whole one. That sounds minor until you've spent a year explaining to a spreadsheet why a dentist appointment shouldn't cost a full day of annual leave.

Takes about 1 min

Steps

  1. Type /timeoff

    The same command as any other request.

  2. Choose the day and mark it as a half-day

    Rather than selecting a full day.

  3. Submit

    Your approver gets the usual DM with Approve and Deny buttons.

  4. Check your balance afterwards

    It should reduce by 0.5, not 1.

Worth knowing

  • Half-days interact correctly with the rest of the system — they're excluded from weekend and public-holiday counting like any other request.
  • This is the detail spreadsheet-based tracking gets wrong most often, and it compounds across a year and a team.

Questions

Does a half-day cost a full day of my allowance?

No. Half-days count as 0.5 against your balance rather than being rounded up.

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