How to Request Leave

A number of individuals can request leave on behalf of the employee as well as the employee themselves, such as their line manager and their assistant. Those members of staff with comprehensive access to OfficeControl also have the ability to request leave for everyone.

Multiple absence types are available to select from when requesting leave such as annual leave, compassionate, maternity and training. Only annual leave will reduce the employee's annual entitlement.

When annual leave is requested, OfficeControl calculates the countable days taken in this leave request and adjusts the employee's entitlement accordingly. An alert is raised to the employee if the entitlement remaining is insufficient to take the requested leave and the request is then stopped.

When requesting leave, OfficeControl will allow for all previously requested leave, standard and bank holidays and the employees work pattern (e.g. Monday to Friday).


Once the leave has been requested an email is automatically sent to the employees' line manager requesting their authorisation and a receipt is sent to the employee.

Forced leave can be requested for certain individuals, departments or the entire company. This facility could be used for office breaks (e.g. Christmas break), training days or factory shutdowns.

See the following screen video capture on how to request leave in OfficeControl.

Requesting Leave (1.6Mb)