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# Time and Attendance

## How can I assign overtime to an employee without designating the entire budgeted hours?

Overtime refers to hours worked beyond the initially budgeted hours. In the scenario where an employee's standard daily work time is 9 hours, overtime hours are only assigned if the employee works beyond the 9-hour mark on that specific day. The manner in which the employee's work is distributed—whether starting earlier or continuing after their shift—does not affect the eligibility for overtime allocation.

To allocate overtime for the employee while not necessitating the full budgeted hours, you can implement a working hour adjustment to reduce the total budgeted hours. For instance, if the employee's standard workday is set at 9 hours (budgeted hours = 9), but you wish to allocate 7 regular hours and 2 overtime hours, you can apply a working hour adjustment to shorten the duration of the shift.

## What is an extended day?

In AllWage, each day runs from midnight to midnight, which makes it easy to spot issues like missed clock-ins or clock-outs. The challenge is shifts that cross over into a new day — for example a night shift.

When an employee clocks in before midnight and works straight through into the next morning (for example, clocking in at 18:00 and clocking out at 05:00 the next day), AllWage keeps the whole stretch together as one shift on the day it started. This is called an **extended day**. Instead of showing an error, the system calculates the total hours across the two calendar days, and flags the shift as "Extended Day" on both the Employee Overview report and the dashboard.

For the full explanation — including how the day boundary works, why we don't shift the day for night-shift workers, and how breaks around midnight are handled — see [Night Shifts & Extended Days](/modules/time-and-attendance/night-shifts-and-extended-days.md).

## Why is my employee's night shift no longer split into two days?

If a night-shift employee clocks out and back in for a short break around midnight, AllWage now keeps the whole night together as **one shift on the day it started**, rather than splitting it into two separate days.

This applies whether the break is taken after midnight, or straddles midnight (the employee clocks out before 00:00 and back in after 00:00 — common for teams working to an overseas time zone). As long as the employee clocks back in within a short window (around two hours), it's treated as a break in the same shift, with the break time excluded from worked hours. A longer gap still ends the shift and starts a new day.

For details and examples, see [Night Shifts & Extended Days](/modules/time-and-attendance/night-shifts-and-extended-days.md#night-shift-breaks-around-midnight).


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