Companies now recognise how important it is for their employees to take regular time off. Not only is it good for their overall health and wellbeing, but studies show that they’re also happier and more productive when their return.

That’s why a lot of managers tend to automatically grant leave requests – with some going as far as to set their approvals on auto-approve – without bothering to review the details.

And while most of the time that is perfectly fine, managers need to be on alert for leave requests that are especially lengthy, so they can review the team’s upcoming workload, and ensure that granting the request wouldn’t place an unfair burden on the rest of the team.

With this Recipe, you’ll be able to auto-approve leave requests without worry. When an employee requests more than one week’s leave, Rippling will send a notification to their manager automatically, alerting them to the lengthy request.

Have a different definition for what’s considered ‘lengthy’? As with all of our workflow Recipes, you can customise this template to your exact needs, including when it should trigger, what the actions should be, who it should go to and more.