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# Managing employee availability is easier than ever

Apr 06, 2021

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Planning and scheduling your workforce to best leverage the hours individual employees are available can be a daunting task at times. That’s why we’ve made setting employee availability more intuitive than ever.

Whether it’s setting a standard availability to repeat weekly or just for a single day, admins can empower their workforce to maintain their most up-to-date availability - making their work-life a little easier by creating efficiencies and eliminating redundancies.

![Large desktop computer screen that features Payworks Time Management solution. ](https://blog.payworks.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/Time%20Management_Recurring%20Availability_February%202021_Time%20of%20Day_EN.png?width=229&name=Time%20Management_Recurring%20Availability_February%202021_Time%20of%20Day_EN.png)Admins can choose the level of control based on their organization’s needs. Changes made to an individual employee’s availability can be set to automatically approve or to require admin approval before being applied. Once a schedule has been finalized and generated, admins can also choose to freeze employees from changing their availability.

Managing employee availability with [Payworks Time Management](https://www.payworks.ca/time-tracking.asp) is easier than ever. Enjoy this intuitive tool that is mobile-optimized so both admins and your workforce can access it from anywhere at any time!

To learn more about how our Time Management solution can help your organization, visit [www.payworks.ca/time-tracking](https://www.payworks.ca/time-tracking.asp).

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