PEOPLE

PTO & Absence

Absence requests and approvals on the people you already have. Available as a ready-to-use Cordango capability.

PTO & AbsencePeople
The Time Off app listing absence requests with their type, dates and approval status.
FIG.01

What it builds on.

PTO does not keep its own staff list. It attaches to the People records that Projects, Recruiting and everything else already use, so a new joiner can request leave the day their record exists and a leaver stops appearing the day theirs is closed.

Approval routing follows the reporting lines already in the platform. Nobody maintains a second manager mapping, and when somebody changes team the routing changes with them.

  • USES People records, teams and reporting lines
  • USES The platform permission model, so a manager sees their own team
  • USES Field-level history, so a changed date is traceable
Available from the startPTO & Absence
  • REQUEST Absence requests with types you define
  • APPROVE Routing to the right manager, with a decision trail
  • SEE Who is out, by team and by period
  • PLAN Availability that project staffing can read
FIG.02

How it actually runs.

1

Someone requests

An employee picks a type and a date range from their own record. No separate login, no form that emails a mailbox.

2

Their manager decides

It routes on the real reporting line. The decision and its timestamp land on the record.

3

The team calendar updates

Everyone with reach sees who is out, without anyone maintaining a shared spreadsheet.

4

Project staffing sees it

The same absence shows up as unavailability where work is being planned, because it is the same person record.

FIG.03

What you can change.

Use the standard version where it fits. Change only the parts where your company is genuinely different.

DATA

Request types

Holiday, unpaid, parental, training, time off in lieu. Define the ones your company actually uses and drop the rest.

RULES

Who approves what

One approver, two, or a different route above a certain length. Set it to match how decisions really get made.

STATES

The states a request moves through

If your process has a provisional step before confirmation, add it. The states are yours.

VIEW

What each role sees

An employee sees their own requests, a manager sees the team, HR sees the whole picture.

MORE

What it works with.

NEXT

One foundation.
Everything on top of it.

PTO does not keep its own employee list. Requests, approvals and absence types attach to the People records that Projects and Recruiting already use.