---
title: 'Holiday requests'
summary: 'The employee-initiated workflow for booking vacation, sick leave, parental leave, or any other absence type. HR/manager inbox for filings from the Voxbi app.'
section: features
tags:
  - tempus
  - holidays
  - requests
  - approvals
updated: '2026-06-17'
---

> A **holiday request** is the employee-initiated workflow for booking vacation, sick leave, parental leave, or any other [absence type](tempus_absence_types.md). The Holiday requests page is the HR and manager inbox for those filings.

The request is the proposal, the [absence](tempus_absences.md) is the result. Until approved, the requested days do not appear as time off, though they reserve quota and may block colleagues from booking conflicting days.

## Overview

This page is restricted to Admin and HR for cross-cutting visibility, manual approvals, and overrides. Department managers approve their own team's requests from a separate inbox in the Voxbi app. From the list you can filter by company, employee, status, or date range, open a request for full context (quota, colleague conflicts, documents), approve or reject, and view a calendar visualization.

## What it does

The flow is linear: a request sits as Pending until a manager approves or rejects it.

| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| **Pending** | Filed, quota reserved but not consumed. |
| **Approved** | Materializes as an [absence](tempus_absences.md), quota consumed, days on the calendar. |
| **Rejected** | No absence created, reserved quota released, employee notified. |

The calendar view (from the employee-column link) highlights the requested days alongside public holidays, other employees' approved absences, and the current quota balance, so you can spot coverage gaps before approving.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Approving is immediate and irreversible. To undo, cancel the resulting absence from the [absences](tempus_absences.md) page rather than re-rejecting the request. The same page is where an employee cancels an already-approved holiday.

> [!CAUTION]
> If your tenant uses [validator rules](validator_rules.md) for custom routing (for example, requests over 5 days need HR sign-off), the row Approve action bypasses that workflow. Use the Voxbi manager inbox for complex routing and this page for exceptions.

## See also

- [Absences](tempus_absences.md) - the materialized result of approved requests.
- [Home office requests](home_office_requests.md) - the sibling workflow for remote-work days.
- [Validator rules](validator_rules.md) - custom approval routing.
- [Absence types](tempus_absence_types.md) - categories of leave.
- [Employee holiday quotas](tempus_employee_holiday_quotas.md) - the per-company scope for closure calendars.