Employee working hours in Microsoft Bookings

Setting employee working hours ensures that their availability is accurately shown when your customers try to book them. By default, the working hours for each of your employees match the business hours you've established in the Microsoft Bookings app. See the "Set your business hours" section of Enter business information.

On the Staff page, you can customize employee working hours to match the needs of your business and employees.

If you want to book time off for staff members so customers can't book them while they're out of the office, see Schedule business closures, time off, and vacation time for instructions.

Watch: Set employee working hours

Watch this video or follow the steps below to set an employee's working hours.

Steps

  1. In Microsoft 365, select the app launcher, and then select Bookings.

  2. Choose your calendar.

  3. In the navigation pane, select Staff, and then select the staff member whose hours you want to set.

  4. Under Working hours, clear the Use business hours checkbox.

  5. Use the dropdowns to select start and end times for each day. Times are available in 15-minute increments.

    Image of Bookings staff working hours screen.

  6. Select + to add start- and end-time selectors.

  7. Select Save.

Set an employee's days off

When you schedule a day off for an employee, that employee will appear unavailable on the booking page. Customers using the booking page will be unable to schedule him or her for service on that day.

  1. On the working hours screen, select the x next to the day that the employee will have off.

    Image of Bookings staff working hours screen with mouse over x button.

  2. If you want to schedule a day that was previously marked as a day off, select the + sign next to the day you want to schedule.

Tip

If scheduling employee vacation time or other large blocks of time off, see the "Schedule employee time off" section of Schedule business closures, time off, and vacation time.