Setting Up Shift and Leave Policies Your Staff Actually Understand

Most small hospitality teams manage leave and shift rules the same way: a notebook, a WhatsApp message, or a manager's memory. It works until two employees request the same week off, or nobody can remember whether someone actually gets 12 or 15 days of annual leave.

An Antena Employee Policy captures all of this in one configuration: hours per day, work days per week, overtime threshold and multiplier, annual/sick/casual leave quotas with optional carry-forward, a holiday calendar, and shift start/end times including overnight shifts.

Attendance rules are configured alongside it — a late-arrival threshold, a grace period before someone is marked late, a half-day cutoff, and what happens if someone forgets to check out (routed to a manager approval instead of silently logging a wrong number of hours).

Policies can optionally be geo-fenced, restricting clock-ins to a radius around the property itself, so a shift can't be started from somewhere the employee isn't actually at. Once a policy is created, it is assigned to employees directly — the same rules apply consistently, and changing a rule means editing the policy once, not correcting a dozen individual timesheets.