How do I approve my employees' time registration?

The short answer: TwoWork doesn't have an approval flow

TwoWork doesn't have a formal "approve hours" button. The philosophy is trust and responsibility - the employee is responsible for registering their time correctly, and as a manager you follow along rather than approving each individual entry.

This is intentional. The EU Working Time Directive emphasises that employees should have control over their own time registration, and TwoWork follows that principle. It also means that as a manager you're not left holding responsibility for having changed or approved hours if a dispute arises later. Read more in How do I edit my employees' hours?.

How to stay on top of things instead

Even without an approval flow, you have good visibility into what's being registered:

• Monthly Insights gives you an overview of how your employees use TwoWork - patterns in their registrations or hours that look like they might need a closer look. Read more in Monthly Insights.
• Time export lets you see exactly what has been registered in a given period - down to each individual shift. Read more in Exporting hours for payroll.

Lock the period when you're ready

Once payroll is done and you're satisfied that the registrations for the period are correct, you can lock the hours as part of the export. It's not an approval - it's a lock. Employees can no longer change or delete the exported entries.

They can still add new entries within the period, and these will be marked as "added after lock" in a later export, so you can easily see if anything came in after the payroll run.

⚠️ Note: a lock is permanent. You cannot reopen the period as a manager.