Allow open-ended

Let employees start time off without specifying an end date — useful for sick leave and other time off with an uncertain duration.

Overview

By default, all time off requests require both a start date and an end date. When you add the Allow Open-Ended plugin to a policy, employees can start time off without knowing when it will end.

Open-ended time off:

• Cannot start in the future
• Stays active until the employee ends it
• Consumes balance progressively, one period at a time, rather than all at once

This is typically used for sick leave where the end date is unknown at the start.

How employees use it

1. The employee requests time off on a type whose policy has this plugin, and chooses Open-ended instead of an end date. The request then reads From {date} until further notice. For sick leave, Register sick leave on the dashboard’s sick leave card opens the same form
2. The time off begins today with no end date
3. The dashboard lists the ongoing time off with a button to end it
4. Ending it and confirming closes it from today — the days already taken stay on record

If the employee checks in while open-ended sick leave is active, mTime asks whether to end the sick leave and check in, or register work anyway. See Checking in during time off.

Configuration

1. Go to Settings › Policies and open a time off policy
2. In the Usage section, add the Allow Open-Ended plugin
3. Optionally, turn on Notify manager to send the employee’s manager an informational notice when open-ended time off is registered
4. Click Save

Then check that the policy’s Availability reaches the employees who should use it.

Related

• Dashboard — where ongoing time off is shown and ended
• Time off policies — how policies are configured and assigned