---
title: "Request leave"
description: "Pick your dates and see your balance before you send the request."
url: https://help.employo.com/en/articles/8-request-leave
collection: "Time off"
updated: 2026-10-27
language: en
alternates: [uk]
---

# Request leave

Pick your dates and see your balance before you send the request.

You can ask for time off straight from your Home page. Before you send it, Employo shows you exactly which days it covers and what your balance will be afterwards.

![Requesting three days of annual leave from the Home page](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/p6a3a95e907a3bff9a01364a2/6FmG7PMpwPOxTEdb3rQfBdTYcLofu0INi21IY5GYosO7wqmGZ55NwI37rl9H6kL7dZYRSIfpty8.gif)

## Steps

1.  On **Home**, click **Request leave** on the Leave balance card. (You can also find Request leave on your profile under Work Info → Leaves.)
    
2.  Choose the **Leave type**. Your available balance for it appears underneath.
    
3.  Open **Date range**, click your first day and your last day, then click **Save**.
    
4.  Check the right-hand side: the **Days breakdown** lists each day, and **Balance** shows your days now, on the first day of leave, the length of this request and what is left afterwards.
    
5.  Add a comment if you like (up to 180 characters) or attach a document.
    
6.  Click **Submit**. You will see “Leave request submitted”.
    

## What happens next

Depending on your company's leave policy, the request is either approved automatically or sent to the person who approves it. Either way you can follow it in **My Approvals** and on your Home page under **Upcoming leaves**.

Attachments can be JPG, PNG, PDF, Word (DOC/DOCX), Excel (XLS) and similar files, up to 50 MB.