# Introduction - Reports

Five reports over your attendance and leave data, and which question each one answers.

Worklink does not have a report builder. It has five reports, each a saved question over the attendance and leave records the rest of the app produces, and the skill is picking the right one rather than configuring anything.

![The Reports screen, headed Reports above the line Attendance and leave analytics. A numbered list runs down the page: 01 Employee Report, attendance, hours and leave for one employee over a period. 02 Attendance, rates, absences, late arrivals and overtime across the company. 03 Leave, leave usage, balances and the yearly trend. 04 Workforce, headcount, tenure, employment type and hiring trend. 05 Activity Logs, audit trail of attendance changes, or your own attendance history. Each row ends in an arrow.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/reports/reports-hub.png)

*The whole module. Five reports, numbered, each with the question it answers written underneath.*

## Which report answers which question

![The numbered report list on the Reports hub, showing entries 01 through 05: Employee Report, Attendance, Leave, Workforce and Activity Logs, each with a one-line description and a right-facing arrow.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/reports/hub-list.png)

*Read the descriptions rather than the names. Attendance and Employee Report both cover attendance; the difference is one person against everybody.*

| Report | Answers | Scope |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Employee Report | How has this one person's month gone? | One employee, one period. |
| Attendance | How is the whole company attending? | Every employee at a depot, one period. |
| Leave | Who is using their entitlement, and when? | A year, by department. |
| Workforce | Who works here, and how has that changed? | A point in time, no period at all. |
| Activity Logs | Who changed what, and when? | An audit trail rather than a measurement. |

## They differ in what they take, not just what they show

The controls at the top of each report are the quickest way to tell them apart.

- **A period and a depot** (Attendance, Leave): Measurements over time. The date range is the first thing to set.
- **A person and a period** (Employee Report): Shows nothing at all until you pick somebody.
- **A depot only** (Workforce): No date range, because headcount is a fact about now rather than a total over a span.
- **Filters and a Run button** (Activity Logs): The only report you have to explicitly run; the rest render as you change the controls.

> **Note:**
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> **Reports read; they never write**
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> Nothing on any of these screens changes a record. A number you disagree with is corrected where it came from: an attendance day through a regularization, a leave figure through the request itself.

> **Tip:**
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> **Start with Attendance, then drill into Employee Report**
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> The company view tells you which names are worth looking at, and the Needs Attention table on it links straight into the individual. Going the other way means picking people at random.