Work From Home Approval

Work From Home Approval Odoo:

This module allows the employees to get their work from home requests approved by their project manager, HR, or the admin. This module monitors the employees' work from home working hours. This module is quite helpful for HR and project managers to manage, monitor, and record the employees' work from home.

How Does It Work?

This is a separate module for the approval of (work from the home) of employees. The employees can verbally or email their project managers to approve their work from home. It is up to the project managers to approve or not approve the work from home request. This will restrict the employees from check-in & checking out manually without the permission of their project manager.

The Benefits of HR Work From Home Approval

Some of the key benefits of using this module are.

1. Attendance Monitoring

   Monitor Attendances can be controlled and monitored if any employee Check In and Check Out access from Odoo.

2. Task Tracking

   It helps in enhancing the Work From Home Approval Odoo module capabilities to allow your employee to work remotely and track the tasks.

3. Monitor Remote Work

   It helps big organization to monitor remote employees' work

Steps of the module:

The following points are the steps of how this module works for the project manager/admin

1. The employee will not be able to check in for work from home until the employee's work from the home request is not approved by their HOD




2. The project manager will go to the employee app

The project manager must have access to the module. Without access, he or she can not open the module.





3. Select the employee profile/s

Goto profile of Employees who have requested work from home





4. Then go to the private information of the employee and press the edit button

In the private information tab, there is a section “Work from home approval”. Select the date from and date to and select approved not approved from the dropdown menu in the section “Work from home approval”





5. And finally, press the save button

The project manager can easily save the work from the home date & time of the employee. This will lead to a specific time and date that will be allowed the project manager to work from home for the employees.











6. Log notes will be created upon approval/ not approval

The log notes will be created upon the approval/ not approval of the work from request.

Detailed Features:

Work from home has the following detailed features that can be very helpful for the employees & project manager.

1. Employees cannot able to check in and check out without the permission of project managers

   Only those employees can check in & check out who have the approval to work from home from their project managers.



2. Employees cannot approve/ not approve their own work from home

   Any employee cannot approve or not approve their own work from home. As this functionality is only allowed by their project managers to approve or not approve the work from home request.



3. Project managers cannot approve/not approve their own work from home

   Also, project managers can not approve or not approve their own work from home request. As the project manager works from home, requests can only be approved or not approved by the admin of the module.



4. Admin has an access to approve/ not approve all of their employees' work from home

   Only the admin has the access to approve or not approve the work from home request for all of the employees and project managers.



5. Log notes are created on every approval and not approved for the history purpose

   The log notes are created on the approval of work from home requests and not approved for historical purposes.



6. Rights are defined for project managers.

   Project Manager cannot edit their own information



7. Also, there is a setting for admin to allow maximum work from home.

   The admin can also allow maximum work from home in the setting of the module. As this can only be done by the admin of the module.



8. If project managers approve more days defined in settings then the record will not save

   If the project manager by mistake writes more days than defined in the setting of work home. This request will not be saved. As only the days for work from home are already defined in the setting. Not more than the days mentioned in the setting is acceptable.



9. Only select Future or present date

   Also, there is a feature if the project manager writes the past date instead of the future or current date for work home it also will not be accepted.