Operational Core — The Records Behind the Work
Manage the people, work, events, communication, knowledge, and relationships that support HEPO's three offerings alongside existing business systems.
HR Time Management: the definitions behind working time
Maintain holidays, breaks, schedules, absence and attendance types, quotas, and assignments alongside existing HR systems.
Maintain holidays, breaks, schedules, absence and attendance types, quotas, and assignments alongside existing HR systems.
HR Time Management is HEPO's definition layer for working time. HR administrators maintain the schedules, holidays, breaks, absence types, attendance types, quotas, and assignments that describe how the organisation arranges its working periods.
These definitions support operational records such as Presence and provide relevant context for the wider offerings. They connect conventional HR administration with People & Culture work while preserving the separate purpose of each.
Establish the working pattern
| Definition or assignment | What it describes |
|---|---|
| Holidays | The calendars of non-working days relevant to the operation |
| Breaks | Defined intervals within the working pattern |
| Daily schedules | The shape of a working day |
| Period schedules | Patterns across a period |
| Work schedules | The schedules used for the organisation's arrangements |
| Absence types | The kinds of time away the organisation recognises |
| Attendance types | The classifications used for attendance |
| Quota allocations | The relevant allowances assigned to people |
| Schedule assignments | Which schedule applies to which participant |
The organisation chooses the actual definitions and maintains them as its arrangements change. Having an absence type or quota is distinct from completing a leave request and its approval workflow.
Follow a schedule into an attendance review
An HR administrator establishes a work schedule and assigns it to the relevant employee. Presence records then have a defined time context for the applicable operational review. If an arrangement changes, the administrator needs to consider the effective assignment and the records affected.
Presence owns attendance submission and review operations. Calendar owns events. Time Management provides the definitions and assignments those capabilities may use; implementation establishes the exact connections and policy behaviour.
Preserve continuity with existing HR systems
Payroll, employment contracts, and statutory transactions can remain in the ERP or HRIS that owns them. Adoption should identify which time information HEPO maintains and which it receives from an authoritative source. Integration provides the configured exchange, with ownership and direction made explicit.
The purpose is continuity in the organisation's work. It does not require replacing every established HR process to gain a cultural reading.
Use time as context, with care
A schedule describes an arrangement. An attendance record describes recorded participation. Neither alone explains workload, motivation, or wellbeing. Relevant operational evidence can complement voluntary experience and other information in People & Culture Orchestration, under its defined observation and access boundaries.
HR owners and consultants agree the schedules, categories, quotas, and review responsibilities. Implementers configure the supported definitions and connections. Walk a schedule assignment, a related presence record, and a changed arrangement with the people who will operate them. Confirm the behaviour the organisation needs before treating a configured definition as an enforced employment policy.
