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How to Monitor Employees’ Smoothing Counters?

Track your employees’ smoothing balances from their profile, schedule, and payroll report.

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How to follow the smoothing counter in the employee profile

From Profile > Modulation, you can see for each smoothing period:

  • The contract dates associated with the period

  • The initial balance, set when the period was created

  • The reference dates of the smoothing period

The cumulative deviation at the end of each week corresponds to the employee’s current balance. It updates weekly based on the hours actually validated.

This monitoring lets you:

  • Check how the balance evolves week after week

  • Compare contractual hours with actual worked hours + absences (excluding rest and unavailability)

  • Track the impact of contract amendments on contractual hours


How to follow the smoothing counter on the schedule

In the weekly schedule, you’ll find:

  • Start-of-week deviation: balance carried over from the previous week

  • Hours accounted for: work + planned absences (excluding rest and unavailability)

  • End-of-week deviation: updated balance after the week

  • Counter over the period: cumulative total since the start of the smoothing period (or since contract start if the employee joined mid-period)


How to follow the smoothing counter in the payroll report

From Reports > select a period > Modulation tab:

You’ll see:

  • Hours accounted for: worked hours + planned absences (excluding rest and unavailability)

  • Absence hours accounted for: only those included in smoothing

  • Cumulative deviation as of the last Sunday included in the payroll period:

    • Positive = more hours than expected

    • Negative = fewer hours than expected

💡 Special cases:

  • Amendment: shown on one line, continuous balance

  • New contract: starts a new line, counter reset to zero

  • Entry or exit during a period: the date is shown under the cumulative deviation

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