Create Holidays
Add holidays that affect HRM calendars, leave, and attendance context.
Holidays define dates that should be treated differently from normal workdays.
Treat holidays as HRM source data. They affect how managers interpret leave, attendance, payroll readiness, and staffing coverage.
When To Add Holidays
Add holidays before employees submit leave or managers review attendance for the period. Holidays give HR and managers context when reviewing absences, attendance, and scheduling.
Add the next calendar year early enough for teams to plan leave. If your company uses regional calendars, gather the location or department list before creating holiday records so each employee sees the right dates.
Add A Holiday
- Open HRM > Holidays.
- Select Add holiday.
- Enter the holiday name.
- Set the start date and optional end date.
- Add location and description if needed.
- Choose whether the holiday repeats.
- Choose whether it applies to all teams or a specific team.
- Set whether the holiday is active.
- Save the holiday.
Recurring Holidays
Use recurring holidays for yearly, monthly, or weekly dates that repeat.
Recurring options include yearly, monthly, and weekly. Use yearly for public holidays that happen on the same date each year. Use one-time holidays for company events or special closures.
Do not make a holiday recurring if the date moves each year. Create or update those holidays manually so employees do not see the wrong date in future years.
Holiday Scope
By default, a holiday can apply to all departments or teams. If it should apply only to one team, turn off the all-teams option and choose the department or team from the dropdown.
For distributed teams, review scope carefully before saving. A global holiday can change attendance interpretation for employees in regions where the date is a normal workday.
Holiday Fields
- Name: visible holiday label.
- Start date and End date: one-day or multi-day range.
- Location: optional location or region.
- Description: context for HR and employees.
- Recurring holiday: repeats the holiday.
- Applies to all teams: controls whether the holiday is global.
- Active: controls whether the holiday is used.
Before Saving
Check whether the holiday conflicts with leave requests or attendance records already created for the same dates. If the holiday is regional, scope it to the right team instead of applying it to everyone.
After saving, open an affected employee or attendance view and confirm the date is represented as expected. This is especially important before payroll or leave balance review.
Regional Review
For multi-location teams, review each holiday against the team or department it should affect. Do not apply a holiday globally unless every employee should see that date as non-working.
If a holiday applies to one region but employees are not organized by region, decide how HR will document exceptions before creating the record.
Maintain Holidays
Review holidays at least once per year and after department changes. Deactivate old company closures that should no longer apply, and update regional scopes when teams move locations or reorganize.
Before the new year starts, create or verify all known holidays, test one leave request around a holiday, and confirm attendance summary shows the date correctly.