Time off management for shift workers

Approve time off with the team in view.

Requests, balances, and accrual policies in one place, so managers see the team's upcoming time off before they say yes, and nobody's request sits forgotten.

Live in two weeks. Configured by our team.

The problem

Every request is a guess about next week's coverage.

On a 24/7 team, one approved day off can leave a shift short. Most managers find out when the schedule is already set.

Requests arrive everywhere

Email, chat, and hallway asks, with no single queue and no record of who asked first.

Balances live in a spreadsheet

Rollover, tenure bumps, and holidays are calculated by hand, and employees ask HR to check.

Nobody sees the busy weeks coming

Holiday weeks fill up quietly until three people are off on the same shift.

Approvals

Everything you need to say yes, on one screen.

Each request shows the employee's shift, the hours it covers, and their balance for every accrual type. Approve, reject, or open the schedule to check coverage first.

Hours from the schedule
Balances by type
Stale request flags
Manager notes
Accrual policies

Your policy, built in. Not kept in someone's head.

Bundle accrual types into policies by region, add tenure rules and recognized holidays, and Octofi keeps every balance current for every employee on it.

Tenure rules
Regional holidays
Observed days
Metered types
Call-out tracking
Overdraft rules
Both sides of the request

Clear for employees. Fast for managers.

For employees

Balances at a glance

Every accrual type with base and rollover hours, plus graphs of how balances and usage trend over the year.

Requests that do the math

Hours are calculated from their schedule and time zone, so a request covers exactly the shifts they'd miss.

Holidays in view

Upcoming and past company holidays sit next to their balances and shift details.

For managers

No forgotten requests

The review queue flags the longest-waiting and stale requests, so nothing sits for a week.

The busy weeks, ahead of time

See people off per week for the next 10 weeks, the busiest week, and who's off in it.

Reports on demand

Leave balances, PTO usage, and call-outs, filtered by shift group and exported to CSV.

Results

Less time on requests. More time on the floor.

What a 24/7 operations team measured after moving scheduling and time off into Octofi.

20+
manager hours saved a week
12%
lower overtime
85%
fewer coverage gaps
FAQ

Time off questions, answered.

Can we set up different policies by country or state?

Yes. Each policy has a region and an optional subdivision, which sets its list of recognized holidays. You can add custom one-off holidays too.

Do balances handle rollover and tenure?

Yes. Balances show base plus rollover hours, and tenure rules add hours once someone reaches a set number of years.

How are hours calculated for a request?

From the employee's schedule and time zone, so the request covers exactly the hours they would have worked.

Can managers see who else is off before approving?

Yes. The review page shows people off per week for the next 10 weeks and who's out in the busiest week, and you can open the schedule from any request.

What happens to requests nobody reviews?

They're flagged in the review queue as the longest-waiting or stale, so they don't get lost.

Can we report on PTO and call-outs?

Yes. Leave balance, PTO usage, and call-out reports can be filtered by shift group and exported to CSV.

See your time-off rules running in Octofi.

Bring your rotations, sites, and time-off rules. We'll show you Octofi running them live.

Live in two weeks. Configured by our team.