The 1H 2025 SAP SuccessFactors Time Management release brings a wealth of enhancements driven directly by customer feedback. Covering 12 influence requests and more than 245 votes, this release reflects a commitment to agility, usability, and compliance.

Enhanced Time Tracking

Time Tracking takes a major step forward, streamlining day‑to‑day operations, reducing manual effort, and giving managers clearer visibility into workforce hours. From accelerated entry workflows to smarter approval cycles and richer compliance checks, these enhancements empower both employees and administrators to focus on what really matters: running your business efficiently.

• Quick Create in the Time Sheet UI: Employees can enter or apply planned time across multiple days, consecutive or not, in a single dialog, speeding up data entry and reducing errors.
• Half‑Day Absences for Clock‑Time Users: Users select the first or second half of a day without calculating start/end times, streamlining absence entry (configuration via a take rule can enforce half‑day only).
• Flexible Time Sheet Approval Periods: Align approval workflows with payroll cycles (e.g., bi‑weekly, half‑monthly, 4‑weekly, or custom start dates) to minimize administrative overhead.
• Time Container Updates: Support up to 10 daily time containers (only 3 previously), including “Counted Events” categories and additional valuation types, for example, tracking days worked per year in France.
• Single Record Approval Enhancements: Improved cancellation workflows, status‑aware time valuation, and clearer handling of declined requests deliver more accurate payroll and greater managerial transparency.
• Non‑Working Day Check in Time Records Filter: Automatically detect whether the next day is a working or non‑working day, which is critical for cross‑midnight premium calculations and irregular shift patterns.
• Consolidated Time Recording Enhancements: In the S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition “My Timesheet,” enjoy cross‑midnight support, fixed breaks, real‑time absence display, and allowance recording for a seamless user experience.

Compliance & Integration

This release also strengthens compliance and third‑party integration. All of these enhancements are designed to reduce manual effort, improve data integrity, and simplify compliance management.

• Time Sheet Change Audit Document: Track who made changes and when, supporting SOX 404, FLSA, and DCAA requirements.
• IDP Payroll Integration: Best practices for extracting, formatting, and transmitting time data to external payroll providers ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance.
• Family Medical Leave Act (USA): Automate absence creation for FMLA with configurable sequencing of time types. Note that only duration‑based, full‑day absences are supported.

Employee Central Time Off Innovations

On the Time Off side, the 1H 2025 release introduces:

1. Absence Creation via Joule: Use natural language to create time‑off requests in SuccessFactors.
2. New Balance Calculation Setting for Time Account Types: View future planned absences when calculating balances, e.g., a 30‑day vacation balance will reflect 10 days booked in August, leaving 20 days in your year‑end view.
3. Mobile Updates: Access My Calendar (list and grid), request leave, view time‑account balances, and see your time‑sheet summary card on mobile for desk‑less workers.
4. Minor Enhancements: Usability improvements in My Calendar UI, enhanced Time Sheet Approval Center filters, server‑time‑based clock‑in/out, and permission migrations for intuitive administration.

Together, these features deliver a unified, mobile‑ready experience for time off management.

Next Steps

Are you interested in leveraging these 1H 2025 updates for your organization? Our SAP SuccessFactors consultants are ready to guide you through gathering requirements, configuration, and best practices. Contact us personally to discuss how we can tailor SAP SuccessFactors' Time Management to your needs!