Product tutorial
Add and update a Time away notice
Follow an edited Company example: save an availability notice, correct its note without changing the dates, then check the current notice and earlier versions. Time away is notice-based; it does not ask the Company for permission or create worked time, compensation or payment.
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Steps you can read
- Open Time away
In your Company, open Work, then Time away.
- Save your availability notice
Choose the first and last days you do not expect to work. Add an optional note your Company may need, then choose Add time away.
- Open the saved notice
Under Your time away, use View or change to open the saved notice.
- Explain and save the correction
In Correct time away, update the dates or note as needed. Explain the change in What changed?, then choose Save correction. This example updates the note and keeps the same dates.
- Check the notice and history
Review the current notice and History. Earlier versions remain available. A Time away notice describes availability; it does not create worked time, compensation or a payment.
Read the transcript
Choose the first and last days you’ll be away.
Add a note, then save your time away.
Update the note and save your explanation.
Your notice now shows the updated note.
Earlier versions stay in the notice’s history.
What Time away means
Time away tells the Company when a Contractor does not expect to work. It is an availability record, not worked time, a payment, or an employee leave benefit.
Time away itself is a notice, not a request for approval. Compensation is optional and has its own request and review.
Add Time away
- In your Company, open Work, then Time away.
- Under Add time away, choose the first and last days you do not expect to work. Add an optional note.
- Choose Add time away and check the confirmation.
- Under Your time away, choose View or change to check the saved dates and note.
Correct or cancel it
Open the notice with View or change. In Correct time away, update the dates or note, explain the change in What changed?, then choose Save correction.
Use Cancel time away if the plan no longer applies. Friday Falcon keeps the earlier version in History so the change remains clear.
Company closures are different
A Company closure records when the Company is closed. A Contractor’s Time away records that Contractor’s own availability. Neither record creates compensation by itself.
Optional compensated Time away
Compensation requests are available only when compensation is available for your Company and the Company has enabled its Time away policy. If compensation is unavailable, you can still record Time away.
Under **Your time away**, check your Company’s allowance, approved hours, pending hours and available balance. You may record an absence beyond the allowance; that does not make all of it compensated.
Request compensation for the dates and hours you want reviewed. Enter the actual absence hours when a schedule does not determine them reliably. The page separates total absence, requested compensation and the uncompensated remainder. A day uses the Company policy’s stated hours, not an assumed eight-hour day.
An authorized reviewer approves or declines compensation separately from recording the notice. You can see the decision and reason. Approval creates a linked Additional compensation record for financial review and Company amount confirmation; it is not a payment or worked time. An approved general hourly rate in the Company currency is required to calculate the amount.
Pending requests reserve allowance. Cancelling a pending request releases that reservation. After approval, use the linked compensation correction route; a finalized amount requires the existing traceable financial correction. Changing or cancelling an availability notice does not silently undo approved financial evidence.
A confirmed period stays closed
If a Company confirms a period containing only compensated Time away, you cannot add time entries to that closed period. A financial correction can adjust the amount owed but does not reopen time entry, even when the corrected amount is zero. Open the linked compensation record or ask a Company Owner about a financial correction.
Set the Company policy
An Owner, or someone explicitly delegated that permission, can open **Company policy** and enable compensation. Existing Companies start with it disabled. Set the fixed annual allowance, hours or days, hours per day and effective date.
The first enabled policy completes initial compensation setup when this feature is available to your Company. If setup is unavailable, contact your Company Owner. Enabling a policy does not grant financial permissions: in **Settings → People & access → Advanced permissions → Money**, a Company Owner can give a request reviewer **View additional compensation** and **Manage additional compensation**, and a different financial reviewer **View additional compensation** and **Confirm additional compensation**. The Owner role alone does not provide those financial permissions.
The policy uses the Company calendar year and timezone. There is no automatic accrual, carryover or prorating; new eligible active work profiles receive the same allowance. Changes apply prospectively and do not rewrite finalized history.
**Team records** shows Owners each eligible person’s annual allowance, pending hours, approved hours and available balance, including people who have not requested compensation. Filter by person, current or former members, and date range. Annual balances always cover the full Company calendar year; a narrower range does not prorate the allowance. The compensation records below retain each request, decision and linked financial history. Team availability remains on the authorized Calendar.
Friday Falcon records compensation and external payments. It does not move money, provide payroll or determine statutory leave rights or contractor classification.
Who can see it
Time away appears according to Company access. A Team Lead may see availability for the people they lead without receiving financial access.