If your company uses template-based recurring schedules, you may occasionally need to modify a particular employee's schedule to reflect special circumstances. You can do this easily by creating a schedule deviation, which is simply an individualized schedule that replaces an employee's template-based recurring schedule for a single day.

To create a schedule deviation, use the Edit Schedules page to view the employee's schedule for the day and edit the schedule information as necessary. This procedure is identical to editing an individualized schedule. If an employee will not be working at all on a day that normally includes scheduled hours as part of a recurring schedule, you can create a schedule deviation that removes the recurring schedule for that day. The procedure for creating this deviation is the same as the procedure described in Deleting an Employee's Schedule for a Specific Day.

Note: When you create a schedule deviation, you replace an employee's template-based recurring schedule for the day, but the master recurring schedule template is not affected. If you later want to remove the employee's schedule deviations and reassign the employee to the standard recurring schedule based on the template, see Removing Schedule Deviations (Restoring a Recurring Schedule).