SettingsOrganisation Information
Working Days and Non-Working-Day Job Handling
How the Working Days card controls active days, planner hours, and what happens when work falls on a non-working day.
The Working Days tab tells Work Planner which days your business operates, which hours should be shown as the shared working window, and what should happen when a due date lands on a day you have marked as non-working.
Fields On The Card
- Day toggles: switch each weekday on or off. A switched-on day counts as a normal working day. A switched-off day counts as non-working.
- Working hours start: the shared start time Work Planner applies to every active day when you save. Leave it blank if you do not want to limit the planner to a narrower daytime window.
- Working hours end: the shared finish time for every active day. The value must be later than the start time.
- 15-minute steps: the screen only accepts times in quarter-hour increments, so 08:00, 08:15, and 08:30 are valid, but 08:10 is not.
- Bank holidays: choose England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or Ireland to show their bank holidays on the planner and on Work > Team, and count them as everyone off when you give out work. None, the starting choice, shows none. See Bank Holidays.
- Non-working day job handling: decides how Work Planner should react when a job would otherwise land on an inactive day.
What The Non-Working-Day Options Mean
- Do Nothing: Work Planner leaves the date where it falls, even if that date lands on a day you have marked as non-working.
- Move To Next Working Day: Work Planner pushes the date forward until it finds the next day that is switched on.
- Move To Previous Working Day: Work Planner pulls the date backward until it finds the previous day that is switched on.
- Move To Closest Working Day: Work Planner looks for the nearest active day instead. Depending on the surrounding pattern, that can move the date backward or forward.
What This Affects Elsewhere
- Planner view: the planner uses these settings when it decides which dates should be considered workable and how future work should appear.
- Job scheduling: scheduled jobs, repeating work, and date updates reuse these rules whenever Work Planner recalculates the next due date.
- Operational consistency: if Saturday or Sunday should never be offered as a working day for your team, switching them off here keeps that rule central instead of fixing dates manually later.
- Bank holidays never move jobs: the options above only look at the days you switch off. A job due on a bank holiday stays where it is, so move it yourself if you won't be working.
- People who work different days: these are the business's days. Someone who works fewer can have their own working days, which only change who shows as off. Jobs still follow the business's days.
- Jobs you always do on a non-working day: rather than switching that day on, which lets other work land there too, tick Keep on its scheduled day, even on a non-working day in that job's schedule. Work Planner then leaves just that job where its schedule puts it.
Changes on this tab save as you make them, like the rest of Organisation Information, so there is no save button to press.
Related articles
- Organisation Information Screen: the full map of everything else stored on this page.
- Scheduling a Job: shows where these rules matter during job setup.
- Planner Settings Popup: useful when you also want to change how the planner itself is displayed.
- Bank Holidays: whose bank holidays you keep, and where they show.