# Work Locations

Add an office, give it a timezone, and let its work week and hours flow through to everybody assigned to it.

Work locations come first in a new tenant, because so much else resolves against them. An office carries the timezone attendance is counted in, the work week its people follow, and the scope a holiday or a leave policy can be limited to.

![The Work Locations screen, headed Work Locations above the line Offices with their own timezone, work week and hours. Employees inherit these from their assigned location, with a blue Location button at the right. Five rows follow, each with a name, a GB country chip and a line reading Europe/London, Mon - Fri, working hours and a headcount: Birmingham Trade Counter 07:30 to 16:30 with 5 employees, Bristol Distribution Centre, Glasgow Depot, Rotherham Central Warehouse with 13 employees, and Sheffield Depot.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/settings/work-locations-list.png)

*One row per site, showing the zone, the week and the hours its people inherit.*

## Add an office

- Go to **Worklink Settings > Work Locations**, then select **+ Location** at the top right.

  ![The New Work Location slide panel, opening with the note An office whose timezone, work week and hours apply to its employees. Anything left empty falls back to the attendance policy. Fields follow for Name, required, Country (ISO-2), Region (ISO 3166-2), Timezone, required, and Address. A Work Days row offers Mon to Sun pills above the note Leave all unselected to use the attendance policy work days, then Work Start, Work End and Hours / Day sit side by side.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/settings/location-panel.png)
- Enter the **Name**, such as `Sheffield Depot`, and set the **Timezone**. Those two are required.
- Enter the **Country** as a two-letter code, and a **Region** where the country's holidays differ by region.
- Add an **Address** if it helps people recognise the site. It is display text and nothing resolves against it.
- Choose the **Work Days**, and set **Work Start**, **Work End** and **Hours / Day** where this office differs from the rest.
- Select **Save**.

## Empty means inherit

Every field below the timezone is optional, and leaving one empty is a decision rather than an omission: the office falls back to the attendance policy for that value. Leave the work days unselected and the office follows the policy's working week.

*Fields on a work location*

## Why the timezone matters more than the rest

An employee's zone resolves through their personal override first, then their work location, then the organisation profile, and only then UTC. In practice the work location decides it for almost everybody, and an office without one leaves attendance counted in UTC, shifting every recorded time away from the local working day.

> **Note:**
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> **Inactive is not deleted**
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> Turning an existing office inactive makes Worklink skip it, and its employees fall back to the policy defaults. The location and its history stay, which is what you want for a site that has closed rather than one entered by mistake.

> **Tip:**
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> **Get the country right before importing holidays**
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> The national holiday import builds each office's list from the country it sits in. A blank or wrong country is why an import returns the wrong public holidays, or none.