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How many days do you actually need in the office?
Four questions about how your policy is written, and you get the real number: how many days this period asks of you, how many are already behind you, and what that works out to per week. It runs the same engine WhereWise counts with, so the figure is the one a tracker would hold you to — not a rule of thumb.
Takes about a minute. Nothing is saved unless you ask us to keep it.
Why “50% of the time” is harder than it sounds
A percentage is a share of your working days, and working days are not calendar days. Take a quarter: it has about 65 of them, so half is roughly 33 — but only if you count nothing else. Public holidays, booked leave and any day your employer agreed not to expect you are usually taken out of the total first, and each one you remove lowers the number of days you owe. That is why two people under the same policy, in the same quarter, can genuinely owe different amounts. The figure this page gives you is the before — every working day in the period, with nothing taken out yet, because the days off are yours to mark as they happen.
A percentage and “three days a week” are not the same rule
A fixed count is per period and unforgiving: three days a week means three days every week, and a week you miss is gone. A percentage is measured across the whole period, so a light week can be made up by a heavier one — the arithmetic only settles at the end. Both are calculated here, because the wording you were handed decides which one you are actually under.
Where the count usually goes wrong
- Counting calendar days. A quarter is 90-odd days and about 65 working ones. Halving the wrong number is out by a fortnight.
- Forgetting the period boundary. A month and a fiscal quarter reset on different days, and the one you are measured on is whichever your employer wrote down.
- Treating leave as a day missed. A day you were excused should come out of what is asked of you, not count against you.
- Averaging across the period. “About two a week” is a comfortable answer that hides a fortnight of catching up in the last two weeks.
What the calculator does not know
It knows what your policy asks. It cannot know how many days you have already been in — which is the other half of the only question that matters, and the part that changes every week. Keeping that side up to date by hand is the job WhereWise exists to do; the calculator is the part you can have for nothing.
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