Create Flexible Leave Policies
Configure leave types, working weeks, and public holidays to match your organization's policies.
HRMS
Leave Management
Simplify leave management with flexible policies, automated approvals, and complete visibility into employee absences.
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Manage Every Leave Request With Confidence
Configure leave policies, automate approvals, and keep employees, managers, and HR aligned throughout the entire leave management process.
Automate Leave Workflows
Route requests through configurable approval flows and automatically generate supporting documents when needed.
Stay Informed
Track leave activity across individuals, teams, and the entire organization with built-in reporting.
LEAVE CONFIGURATION & MANAGEMENT
Build Leave Policies that Fit Your Organization.
Create the rules behind your leave management process, then automate requests, approvals, and reporting from one centralized platform.
- Configure Leave TypesCreate unlimited leave types, including annual leave, sick leave, parental leave, unpaid leave, compensatory leave, and any custom absence policy your organization requires.
- Define Working Weeks & HolidaysSet working week templates for different employee groups or locations and maintain public holiday calendars for individual countries or branch offices.
- Automate Leave RequestsEmployees submit leave requests that follow configurable approval workflows, trigger document generation when required, and automatically update leave balances.
- Monitor Leave Across the OrganizationGenerate reports for individual employees, teams, or the entire company to monitor leave balances, absence trends, and time off activity.
How leave management works in Spark.work
Leave in Spark.work runs on one record shared with attendance, timesheets and payroll data, so a request travels from the employee to the manager to the balance without anyone re-typing it.
Policies configured once
Leave types, entitlements, accrual rules, carry-over limits and public holiday calendars are set per location or employee group, so every request is validated against the right rule automatically.
Requests from web or mobile
Employees see their balance and submit a request in the browser or the mobile app; the system checks entitlement, notice periods and blackout dates before a manager ever sees it.
Approvals with context
Managers approve from the team calendar with overlapping absences and remaining balances in view, and receive a notification for anything waiting on them.
Balances and payroll updated on approval
Approval deducts the balance, records the absence in attendance and passes the classified days to payroll, so month-end needs no reconciliation.
Who uses it, and what changes
Leave is the highest-volume HR transaction in most companies. Moving it into the HRMS changes the working day for four groups.
HR teams
Stop maintaining balances in spreadsheets and answering balance questions by email; report on usage, accrued liability and absence patterns by team instead.
Managers
Decide requests in seconds with the team calendar open, and see planned absence next to the goals and projects the team is running.
Employees
Know the balance, request leave from a phone, and see the decision without chasing anyone.
Finance and compliance
Get accrued-leave liability and statutory absence records from the same system that holds attendance and timesheets, with the approval trail kept.
FAQ
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Can I create custom leave types?
Yes. Spark.work allows you to configure unlimited leave types based on your organization's policies.
Can different offices have different working weeks or holidays?
Yes. Working week templates and public holiday calendars can be configured for different branches, countries, or employee groups.
Can leave requests follow an approval workflow?
Yes. Leave requests can be routed through configurable approval flows before they are approved.
Can documents be generated automatically during the leave process?
Yes. Supporting documents can be generated automatically as part of the leave workflow when required.
Can I track leave across the organization?
Yes. Spark.work provides reporting for individual employees, teams, and the organization as a whole to help monitor leave usage and absence trends.
Modernize Your Leave Management Process
Replace manual leave tracking with automated workflows that save time for employees, managers, and HR.