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Last Updated: 2025-05-30
Concept: Absence Calendar

Concept: Absence Calendar

In September 2025, we plan to retire these legacy reports and tasks:
  • Absence Calendar
  • Place Worker on Leave
  • Request Leave of Absence
  • Time Off Calendar
To aid in your transition to Absence Calendar Experience on desktop and mobile, Workday recommends that you familiarize yourself and groups of users by configuring the initiating actions for the experience instead. See Steps: Set Up the Absence Calendar Experience.
As we plan to retire the
Time Off and Leave Calendar
, we advise that you use the more flexible
Team Absence Calendar
 report, which enables you to edit time off requests as part of the new experience. See Steps: Set Up the Team Absence Calendar.
The
Absence Calendar
 and the related actions merge the tasks for requesting time off and leave of absence. You can manage absence requests from the calendar using these tasks or related actions (from the worker):
  • Correct Absence
  • Correct My Absence
  • Enter Absence
  • Request Absence
You configure the
Absence Calendar
 with the
Absence Calendar
 business process security policy. The business process security policy works with these business processes for time off and leaves, which manage the action steps for time off and leave requests:
  • Correct Time Off
  • Request Leave of Absence
  • Request Time Off
The related actions access the
Absence Calendar
, and workers select from a combined list of time off and absence types, collectively known as absence types. Report field labels also use the term Absence.