# Employee portal

![Employee portal](/files/help/tour-portal.mp4 "Employee home, schedule, and check-in.")

The employee portal is a person's own view: home, published schedule, availability, open shifts, and check-in. Managers still build the month on Assign shifts.

1. Open **Employee Portal** under Shift & Attendance.
2. On **Home**, use **Check in** when you start and **Check out** when you leave. See [Check in and check out](/hrms/attendance/employee-checkin).
3. Open **Schedule** for published shifts, time off, and holidays. **Full schedule** on the home card opens the same page.
4. Open **Availability** to mark Preferred, Available, or Can't work. See [Availability](/hrms/attendance/availability).
5. Open **Open shifts** and choose **Claim** when a posted shift still needs coverage. See [Open shifts](/hrms/attendance/open-shifts).
6. Open **Time off**, then **Attendance**, to send a Work from home or On duty request. Open **Approvals**, then **Attendance**, when you review someone else's request. See [Review attendance](/hrms/attendance/attendance).
7. Open **Requests** to ask for a **Shift change**, **Extra hours**, or a **Swap or offer**.

## What you should see

Home shows a greeting and, when the time clock is on, Time clock with **Check in** or **Check out**. After check-in the chip says Checked in at. After check-out it says Checked out at. The day line can still say you are not scheduled.

Schedule shows published shifts. Before the month is published, home can say HR hasn’t published this schedule yet.

**Approvals** lists Leave, Shift claims, and Attendance. Attendance shows No attendance waiting when nobody is waiting.

## If something looks wrong

**Check in** is missing when the time clock is off for you. Use the [clock station](/hrms/attendance/clock-station) only when a shared screen is at the desk, and confirm before a punch is recorded.

If you do not see **Approvals**, this portal is the employee view. A person who also works in HR can open **HR desk**.

If home says No employee profile, an HR record is not linked to this login yet.