An overtime decision preference in Tempus is a default rule for how an employee wants their overtime treated at period close: pay it out as cash, bank it as compensatory time-off, or split it 50/50. It seeds the default split on each overtime decision so HR is not typing the same choice for every employee every period.
Overview
A preference can be set per-employee or per-company, and the page lets you create, edit, and activate or deactivate them via the is active toggle without deleting. HR can still override the split on any individual decision regardless of the preference.
What it does
At period close, the system resolves the preference in this order:
- Active per-employee preference, if one exists.
- Otherwise active per-company preference.
- Otherwise the tenant default (typically bank as time-off).
So you set a company-wide default and let specific employees opt into something different with their own preference. Inactive preferences are skipped, and reactivating one restores it.
Resolution happens at period-close time, not when the preference is saved, so changing a preference does not touch a decision already generated. To apply a different split to a past period, edit that decision directly.
See also
- Overtime decisions - the decisions that consume these preferences.
- Employees, Companies - the two preference targets.
- Overtime periods - the trigger for preference resolution.