Set up your organization

What to set first

1. Company name and timezone — the timezone anchors when scheduled announcements go out.
2. Fiscal year start — sets the boundary where balances reset and carryover is calculated. Most teams use January, but if your leave year starts in April, set it here.
3. Work week — which days count as working days. A Monday–Friday week means a request spanning a weekend only deducts the weekdays.

Then add structure

These are optional, but they're what makes policies and holidays work properly for a distributed team:

• Settings → Locations — each location carries a country and timezone, and drives which holiday calendar applies.
• Settings → Departments — group people for filtering, reporting, and department-level policy assignment.
• Settings → Leave types — the categories people can request. See Leave types.