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Lengthy PTO request alert

When an employee’s leave request is too long, send an alert to the manager.

When this happens

Employee’s PTO request exceeds specific duration

Then do this

Send a notification to an employee, manager, admin, department, or team

How to alert managers of extended PTO requests

With Rippling’s Workflow Automator, you can automatically trigger an alert to managers when an employee request an especially long leave of PTO.

What do you need?

Rippling HRIS

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Recipe Overview

Companies today recognize 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 on their return.

That’s why a lot of managers tend to automatically grant PTO 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 PTO 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 PTO requests without worry. When an employee requests more than one week’s leave, Rippling will automatically send a notification to their manager, alerting them to the lengthy request.

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

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