Requesting leave and what it does to your streak

My Leave is where you ask for days off and where the answer comes back. One row per request, newest first, and the line under the heading counts how many are still waiting on an answer.

1. Open My Leave and click Request leave.
2. Pick a First day and a Last day. Both ends are counted, so a single day off is the same date twice. The line under the two dates does the arithmetic while you pick and says how many days you have selected.
3. One request covers at most 31 days, and the range has to sit within 90 days either side of today. A month off is one request. Leave from last quarter is a correction somebody makes by hand, and leave a year out is a plan rather than a request.
4. Fill in Why if it helps. It is optional and up to 500 characters, and it is the thing that explains those days when somebody reads the row months later.
5. Click Send request. You can have three requests waiting on an answer at once, and the note beside the character count says how many of those are still yours to use. A request that has already been decided never counts against it.
6. A range that overlaps leave you have already asked for, whether it is still pending or already approved, is refused rather than filed twice.

Nothing here is edited or withdrawn. Every attempt stays on the list as its own row, so the answer to a mistake is another request rather than a correction to this one.

Decisions are made in the admin panel, on the Team Pulse tab, by whoever is granted it. When one lands you get a notification in the app and a push to your device (held until office hours only if you switched that on in Settings), and clicking it brings you back to this page. The row changes to Approved or Declined, and any note the approver left sits underneath your own reason.

Approved days are paused on your streak rather than counted for it. They are neutral: they are not a day you worked, and they do not spend either of the two quiet working days a streak forgives. Weekends and public holidays already behave that way, and approved leave joins them, so a fortnight off leaves the run exactly where it was.

There is no balance on this page and no allowance. It is a record of what was asked for and what was answered, not a count of days remaining.