In foreknown, a lot of information about employees is managed that is important for team management, human resources and payroll accounting. It is therefore necessary to be able to easily query all key KPIs relating to working hours, vacation, sick days, other absences and on-call duty for defined periods of time.
With the 2.15 release, foreknown offers an Excel export on a template basis in the employee administration, which presents many useful KPIs in tabular form with totals for selected periods and the current year.
New Template Type "Employee Report"
Every company has its own requirements for employee reports. For this purpose, we have created a new template type “Employee Report” based on Excel, which can be used to extract a variety of KPIs relating to the topics
- Working Time / Activity Bookings
- Vacation
- Sick Leave
- Other Absences
- On-call Duty
into individual excel-based reports. A basic template is already provided with this new template type and further topic-related templates can be downloaded and customized using the download links at the bottom of this article.
Documentation Links: The following links refer to the relevant chapters in the documentation:
Create Employee Report
The administration of employees offers the option of creating individual employee reports based on filtered or all employees.

A pop-up dialog allows you to select the desired template that you have previously set up and also define a time period. The report is then generated as an Excel file and can be downloaded.
Here is an example of what such an export could look like:

Download: The following Excel files can be used as the basis for further individual employee reports. Simply create new templates of the type “Employee Template” and upload the desired Excel file via “Upload edited Template”.
Conclusion
The new “Employee Report” template type in foreknown 2.15 provides companies with a powerful and flexible solution for evaluating and providing important employee KPIs. The ability to create individual Excel exports based on preconfigured templates ensures optimized personnel management, transparent payroll accounting and a sound basis for decision-making.
Thanks to the easy customizability of the reports, companies can specifically evaluate the key figures relevant to them for working hours, absences and on-call duty and thus further automate their internal processes. The new export functions not only offer considerable time savings, but also greater accuracy and traceability in administration and billing.
Interested? Then test foreknown and see how easy it can be to generate employee reports!