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Reports – Absences & Overtime

Overview of all reports for working hours, absences, and overtime available in ZEP: My Reports, Projects, Employees, and employee detail view.

Written by Gideon Weller

The reports for the module are available at several places in ZEP: under Reports > My Reports, Reports > Projects, Reports > Employees, and directly in the menu of individual employees.

Tip: Each of the reports described here can be exported as a file. How the export works, which formats ZEP supports, and how the background export for large data sets works is described in the article Tips & Tricks for Using ZEP in the sections File formats of reports and Run reports automatically.

My Reports

The following reports can be found under Reports > My Reports > Overtime & Absences.

Absences Overview

Summary of all your own recorded absences in a calendar view. Filter options: department (incl. sub-departments), period, absence reason category, absence reason, status, and employee.

Note: Which employees are visible depends on the permission level. The setting for this can be found in the Basic Settings Absences & Overtime.

My Reports Absence overview with filter department, period, absence reason category, absence reason, status, employees, Execute button and calendar view May to July 2026

Applications for leave

Listing of all submitted absence requests for an overview and tracking of the approval status. Filter options: department (incl. sub-departments), period, period reference (request period or absence period), status, and the option to display planned, non-requested absences.

Note: If an administrator or department manager approves an absence directly for themselves, the request receives the status approved. It does not appear in the default filter with status requested. Set the status filter to approved or any to find it.

The report is grouped by employee and shows the following columns per request:

  • Requested on — the date and time the request was submitted, that is, the date the request was received.

  • Duration — the length of the requested absence in days.

  • Absences — the requested absence period with the absence reason.

  • Remark — an optional note on the request.

  • Status change with status, by and since — once a request has been approved or rejected, the report shows the current status, the person who processed it, and the date of the decision.

Submitted absence requests can be changed, withdrawn, approved, or rejected directly via the pencil icon.

My Reports Absence requests with department, period request or period absence, status requested and checkbox Show planned non-requested absences for the overview

Month-End Report

Summary of your own working and absence hours for a specific period. The pre-set period is: until the 15th of the month, the previous month, from the 16th, the current month up to today. The pre-set period can be adjusted at any time.

The report shows per day: target hours, working hours, booked absence reasons, paid absence hours, flexitime, under- and over-target, public holiday, public holiday surcharge, and special times. With an active break regulation, start, end, minimum break, observed break, rest period, and break violations are additionally displayed.

A brief explanation of the most important columns:

  • Target Hours: According to the employee's regular working time, taking public holidays into account.

  • Effective Hours: Working hours and paid absence (holiday, illness) and surcharge (special times), minus breaks not observed.

  • Working Hours: Actually worked hours, can be higher than the target hours when overtime is worked.

  • Booked Absence Reasons: All booked absence reasons per day, incl. planned (but not yet calculated) absences.

  • Paid Absence Hours: Calculated from absence reasons of the category "Paid Absence".

  • Flexitime: Minus hours for a booked flexitime absence reason, incl. total.

  • Under & Over Target: Other minus and plus hours incl. total.

  • Public Holiday Work: Working hours on Sundays and public holidays, if applicable with time surcharge according to settings.

If the option "Show Payable Hours" is activated under Basic Settings Absences & Overtime, the column "Payable Hours" replaces the column "Effective Hours".

My Reports Month-end report with period and table Weller Gideon regular working time 8 hours plus monthly overview April 2026 with target hours, working hours, absence hours, holiday surcharge and break regulation

Time Report with Absences

Detailed proof of hours worked including absences and public holidays, ideal for submission to the client. Public holidays and absences are displayed with the number of hours according to the regular working time. Hours recorded on a public holiday or on a day with absences are additionally shown.

Filter options: period, optionally with subtotals, legend, and signature block.

Administrators and department heads can also call up this report for individual employees: Employee > [Employee name] > Time Reports > Time Report with Absences.

My Reports Time proof with absences and public holidays with period, checkboxes Subtotals by date, Legend locations and Signature block in the print version

Work Break Overview

Day-by-day listing of your own working hours with an evaluation of break compliance. Per day the following are displayed: start and end of working time, minimum break, observed break, missing break, and the net working time adjusted for the break deduction.

Note: This report is only visible if a break regulation is configured.

Time Report Summary

Can be found under Reports > My Reports > Time Reports > Time Report Summary. Condensed summary of your own project hours for a selectable period, structured by projects and tasks. With overtime calculation activated, absences, effective hours, and overtime are additionally shown.

Time Report Detail

Can be found under Reports > My Reports > Time Reports > Time Report Detail. Individual listing of all your own project hours with date, start, end, hours, project, task, and remark. Filter options: period, projects, billability. Optionally daily totals or a breakdown by projects can be shown, and a signature block can be added.

Administrators and department heads can also call up this report for any employee: Reports > Employees > Time Reports > Time Report Detail.

Projects

In the Project reports, the module adds additional views.

Absences Overview

Can be found under Reports > Projects > Overtime & Absences > Absences Overview. Provides an overview of the holiday plan of project employees in order to identify bottlenecks during the project runtime at an early stage.

Filter options: department of the project (incl. sub-departments), period, absence reason category, absence reason, status, project, employee, and sorting.

Projects reports Absence overview with project department, period, absence reason category, absence reason, status, project, employees and sort by default setting

Employees

The following reports can be found under Reports > Employees > Overtime & Absences and are reserved for administrators and controllers. With the Locations & Departments module, department heads can create these reports for their departments.

Absences Overview

Employee-oriented report of all absences. Filter options identical to the Absences Overview under "My Reports", supplemented by cross-departmental filtering.

The employee's personnel number is displayed in the tooltip and exported in a separate column in the Excel export. The report can be output as preview, PDF, Excel (incl. optional monthly or annual overview), CSV, or as an automated background task with email dispatch. In addition, the Absences Overview can be subscribed to as an iCalendar.

Employees report Absence overview with department, period, absence reason category, absence reason, status, employees, sort order and calendar view May to July 2026

Applications for leave

Lists all absence requests of all employees according to the set filter criteria. Functional scope identical to the Applications for leave report under "My Reports".

Employees report Absence requests with department, period request or absence, employees, status requested and checkbox Show planned non-requested absences

Working Times Overview

Overview of the status of working hours of all employees. Filter options: department, period, employees with/without regular working time. Optionally you can restrict the display to employees who have not complied with their break regulation, an hour upper limit, or their core working hours.

If the option "Show Payable Hours" is activated under Basic Settings Absences & Overtime, an additional column "Payable Hours Balance" is displayed.

For each employee, the table shows the most important working time figures: Target hrs, Effective hours, Working hours, Annual holiday and Paid absence in hours each, as well as the Overtime (effective - target).

In ZEP Compact and ZEP Professional, the column only billable and the billable share in percent are added. If travel times are recorded, the column of which traveling time, split into billable and non billable, is additionally shown. Individual columns can be shown and hidden via the column configuration.

Employees report Working times overview with department, period, employees and checkboxes for break regulation plus table target hours, effective hours, working hours, absence hours, overtime and balance

For employees without regular working hours, the target hours are 0, which means every hour recorded is shown as overtime. Since this is not comparable to the overtime of employees with fixed regular working hours, you can evaluate this group separately using the option "include employees with no regular working hours".

In addition to the general filter, you can narrow down the results list further with the option "Work break regulation violated: show core working hours violation only." Activating this checkbox excludes violations for excessive working time or insufficient breaks from the check, since ZEP deducts these automatically as part of the work break regulation anyway. The results list then only shows employees for whom core working hours, rest periods, or an hourly limit were not complied with.

Provisions

Can be found under Reports > Employees > Overtime & Absences > Provisions. Available in combination with the Revenue & Costs module.

Shows the residual holiday and overtime of an employee at the selected key date, multiplied by the internal hourly rate or the internal hourly rate for provisions.

  • Overtime: Overtime balance × internal hourly rate.

  • Residual Holiday: Residual holiday in days, converted to hours according to the regular working time valid at the key date, × internal hourly rate.

Note: Employees with the setting "Calculate and display overtime and time surcharges" = "No" always have an overtime balance of 0 and are not displayed if the holiday balance is also 0. The checkbox "Ignore minus hours per employee" is pre-selected so that minus hours of individual employees are not offset against overtime of others. The report is slower the longer ago the last closed month before the key date is.

Employees report Provisions for overtime and leave with department, period, employees and checkbox Ignore minus hours per employee for the accruals calculation

Annual Absence Days

Shows all absence days per employee over a year. Filter options: period, absence reason category, department. Two breakdown options are available:

  • Breakdown by months: Employees as rows, months as columns.

  • Breakdown by absence reasons: Employees as rows, absence reasons as columns with the respective total of absences in days. When an absence reason category is selected, all absence reasons of the category are output as columns, including those without values.

The report can be scheduled as an automated background task and sent by email.

Employees report Yearly overview of absence days with department, period, employees, absence reason category, absence reason, breakdown months or reasons and status approved

Work Break Overview

Can be found under Reports > Employees > Work Break Overview. Shows per employee and day: start, end, minimum break, observed break, missing break, and the adjusted net working time. Visible only when a break regulation is configured.

Month-End Report

Administrators, controllers, and (with the Locations & Departments module) department heads can create this report for any employees. Can also be found under Employee > [Employee name] > Overtime & Absences > Month-End Report. Functional scope identical to the Month-End Report under "My Reports".

Employees report Month-end report with department, period and employees filter plus displayed tooltip for the employees selection field

Availability Level

Can be found under Reports > Employees > Overtime & Absences. Creates a report on the availability level of employees in a defined period, structured by months or weeks.

Without the module only the Employment Level is available here (ratio to full-time on a weekly basis). With the module three variants are available:

  • Availability Level: Calculates the average of all days in relation to full-time – not on a weekly basis but day-precise. If someone works Mon–Fri with 4 hours, the availability level is always 0.5.

  • Availability Level incl. unpaid absences: Takes unpaid absences such as parental leave or sabbatical into account. Corresponds most closely to FTE (Full Time Equivalent). Paid absences such as holiday or illness are not taken into account.

  • Availability Level incl. all absences: Corresponds to the actual availability in resource planning, taking all holidays, illness, etc. into account. Overtime is not taken into account.

Employee Detail View

The following reports are available directly in the menu of an individual employee and are accessible to administrators.

Balancing overtime and holidays

Can be found under Employee > [Employee name] > Overtime & Absences > Compensation Overtime, Holiday. Here you can manually add or deduct overtime and holiday days – e.g. for payouts of overtime, compensation of minus hours, or when initially setting up ZEP with existing balances.

For each month the following are displayed: overtime worked, break regulation deductions, contractually compensated overtime, balanced and credited overtime, time surcharges, overtime balance, annual holiday, taken and balanced holiday days, residual holiday, and an optional remark.

  • Credited: The entered value is added to the overtime or holiday account.

  • Balanced: The entered value is subtracted from the overtime or holiday account (e.g. for payouts).

Note: Balanced and credited values always refer to the whole month, even if it does not lie entirely within the reporting period.

Unlike balanced and credited values, the displayed overtime worked and holiday days taken refer only to the actual reporting period. If the reporting period does not start or end on the first or last day of a month, only the partial period is taken into account for that edge month.

Annual Holiday

Provides an overview in the absence calendar under Absences & Appointments and under Employee > [Employee name] > Administration > Calendar of: residual holiday from the previous year, holiday entitlement, taken and balanced holiday days, residual holiday for the current year, planned absences, and – depending on the setting – the current overtime balance. Pending approvals can be approved or rejected directly here. The employee is notified by email.

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