---
title: "Employee Time Settings"
slug: "employee-time-settings"
description: "Understand Work Start Time settings for accurate employee payroll, including Hard and Soft Start types, and technician job visibility features."
tags: ["Technician Job Visibility"]
updated: 2025-01-23T18:14:27Z
published: 2025-01-23T18:14:27Z
canonical: "support.maidcentral.com/employee-time-settings"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.maidcentral.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Employee Time Settings

## **Summary of Specific Settings and Their Functions**

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/0c1ef627-c6ff-4a23-afbe-729f8c45b2d2/Images/Documentation/employee-time-settings-image-lha8cz9z.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-15T16%3A46%3A50Z&se=2026-11-15T17%3A46%3A50Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=Pw8y%2FNUag9CBFh8044Eb%2Bs6u0vFewkaAynQt6UaeyZI%3D)

**Work Start Time** is set when the Employee clocks in for the day, depending on if the team the employee is scheduled for is [Hard Start or Soft Start](/v1/docs/explaining-soft-start-and-hard-start-for-teams)

***Work start time is how the system will know how to pay your employees based on the "Team Start Type" for the day***

- If the Team that the Employee is scheduled on is a **Hard Start**
  - Clocks in, the Work Start Time is saved as the **Scheduled Start Time** for that day. This is the time set at their Employee Profile > Availability Tab.
- If the Team that the Employee is scheduled on is a **Soft Start**
  - Clocks in, the Work Start Time is saved as the **Current Time of the Clock In**

**Settings > Payroll Options > Employee Start Time**

- Employee Start Time: This is a deprecated field that is **no longer used** . This used to be used in Payroll Calculations and was replaced with **Work Start Time** .

**Settings > Features: Tech Dashboard: Future Jobs are Visible**

- With this enabled, the Technician Dashboard will display a Calendar to change the Date for Scheduled Jobs
- Can ONLY clock in for the Current Date
- **Ignores** the Technician Job Visibility (minutes) setting - below

**Settings > General: Technician Job Visibility (minutes)**

- This **ONLY** comes into play if the above Feature (Tech Dashboard: Future Jobs are Visible) is **not enabled** .
- Allows a Technician to see the Jobs for the Day XXXX Minutes before their Scheduled Start - Current Day only.