Time Cards – Negative Hours

This can happen in very specific cases, when you allow shift splitting and employees can clock in early.

In normal cases, here is how a shift split works.

• Employee Scheduled -12PM to 8PM
• Employee leaves at 3PM, arrives back at 5PM
• We calculate the schedule as 2 entries:
  12PM-3PM (3hrs)
  5PM-8PM (3hrs)

The system automatically adjusts the inner times (3PM and 5PM) and leave the start/end because of copy/history of schedules.

If employees can check in early, this situation will generate a negative hour

• Employee Scheduled -12PM to 8PM
• Employee arrives at 8AM, leaves at 11AM, arrives back at 3PM
• We calculate the schedule as 2 entries:
  12PM-11AM (-1hrs)
  3PM-8PM (5hrs)

A future enhancement we will adjust the start/end dates, but due to the complex rules in place now, this isn’t an easy change, hence why it shows a negative value.