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# Viewing Time Off Insights

Learn how to see how much time off was taken, by whom, and how much everyone has left. Useful for spotting in time who still has a lot of leave, or whose days are about to expire.

#### Where do you find it?
Go to HR → Reports → Time Off Insights.

#### Filtering
* **Period**: This Month, This Quarter (default), This Year, Last Quarter or Custom.
* **Type**: for example only Vacation.
* **Team**

#### What do you see?
**At the top**
* **Total time off days** in the period.
* **% of working days on leave**: what share of all working days people were on leave.
* **Average leave requests per person**
* **Employees with time off**
Only approved time off counts.

**By Type**: how many days per type of time off, compared to the previous period of the same length.

**Team Breakdown**: for each team, the number of days off per employee.

Have mental health days gone up compared to the previous period? Then you'll see a notice at the top. It can be a sign that the workload is high.

#### Balances
Under **Balances** you see, per employee and per time off policy:
* **Balance**: what's available this year.
* **Booked ahead**: approved time off still to come.
* **Requested**: time off still awaiting approval.
* **Remaining**: what's left.
If days are about to expire, it says so, for example "3 days will expire on 1 July".

Below that are the **Entitlements**: one-off allowances such as parental leave, with what was entitled, approved and remaining.

#### The balance history
Click a balance to see how it adds up. Each row shows the Date, Type, Cause, the number of Days and the Balance after it. That way you can see, for example, when leave was built up, taken, adjusted or expired.

You change a balance on the employee's profile. See [Managing an employee's time off](https://help.heartsome.co/en/article/managing-an-employees-time-off-88gni/).

#### Exporting
Click Export to Excel for a file with the data matching your filters.