With time tracking, Timebutler maintains a working time account for each employee and calculates overtime based on the entered working time, the target working time, the individual holidays, the settings for rounding, overtime capping, and setup times, and other settings.
In some companies, it is not desired that employees, managers, or admins can see the accumulated overtime, for example because the company applies trust-based working time.
In this case, Timebutler offers many options to restrict the display of overtime individually, as follows:
Cap all overtime
You can set that all overtime is compensated. Timebutler still calculates and shows the overtime in the working time account, but caps it at the beginning of the month and carries over neither overtime nor negative hours to the next month.
Set the overtime capping to the option All overtime is compensated, carry over neither overtime nor negative hours to the next month. Read here how to activate overtime capping.
Disable the display of the working time account, overtime calendar, and overtime balance
You can define for the user types admin, manager, and employee whether the working time account, the calendar view of overtime, and the up-to-the-second overtime balance on the dashboard are displayed.
To do this, log in to Timebutler as an admin and click Settings at the bottom left, then More… below it. Then click the Time tracking heading on the page. On this time tracking settings page, you find the Display of information about overtime heading in the lower area. Here you can set the view permissions for the overtime information individually.
Disable entering overtime reduction
If you do not want to show overtime, it should also not be possible to enter overtime reduction. You can completely disable entering overtime reduction for all users. In the time tracking settings (see the previous section on this page), you find the Entering overtime reduction option for this.
Note
This article describes overtime calculation and display. Overtime rules and the concept of trust-based working time (Vertrauensarbeitszeit) are shaped by German labour-law practice; the mechanics in Timebutler are country-independent and can be applied regardless of location, but the underlying legal expectations vary by country.