Desktop App & Tracking
What happens if I don't give a reason for my away time?
How a skipped reason affects your Away Time and Focus score, what your manager sees, and how to add one later.
Nothing is blocked if you don’t give a reason for your away time. Your day still logs, and the time stays as Away Time. On Team Professional, though, away time without a reason counts against your Focus score, so adding one can raise it.
What stays the same
Logging isn’t affected. A missing reason never stops you from logging your day.
The time counts as Away Time on your day and on the Timeboard’s Away tab, with or without a reason.
What a missing reason changes
Your Focus score, on Team Professional. DoTally reads an unexplained away stretch as time away from focus. Your Overall score follows, because it’s built from Productivity and Focus.
What your Administrator and Managers see. When they open your day, they see each break and any reason you gave, whether App Sharing is on or off. A break without a reason shows without one, and they can’t add one for you.
Adding a reason later
You can add, change or clear a reason any time. Open My Work → Day, find the stretch in the Away Time section, and click Click to provide reason. You can also use Provide Reasons under the notification bell. On Team Professional, your scores are recalculated when you save.
Days older than your workspace’s Keep detailed history for setting are the exception: the reason is saved, but the scores stay as they were.
Available on: Team StartUp and Team Professional. The score effect is Team Professional only, including the 14-day trial.
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