Does Insight by Hyring include leave management?

Yes, through the lightweight HRIS included free with Hyring. It covers employee records, leave requests, approvals, and balances. It is deliberately light: enough for most teams, and not a substitute for a full HR platform at enterprise scale.

Is leave management free with Hyring?

Yes. The lightweight HRIS covering employee records and leave is included free with Hyring regardless of which Insight plan you are on. Insight by Hyring Pro at $7 per user per month covers the tracking and analysis layer.

Does it calculate statutory leave entitlements?

No. It records requests, approvals, and balances against the policy you configure. Statutory calculation and payroll processing sit with your payroll provider, and we feed data to that rather than replacing it.

Can it tell us who is not taking leave?

Yes, and this is the part conventional leave systems miss entirely. Because Insight by Hyring watches the work alongside the balance, it can surface people accruing without taking, and people who booked leave and worked through it anyway.

Why does unused leave matter?

Because it is one of the more reliable early signals in workforce data. Someone accruing for nine months without a day off is usually either indispensable in a way that is unsustainable or already disengaging, and both are worth knowing before they hand in notice.

Can employees see their own balances?

Yes, alongside their own tracked hours and focus patterns. The whole product is built so the employee sees their own data before any manager does.

Do we still need an HR platform?

At scale, probably. If you need appraisal cycles, case management, statutory filings, and payroll, keep an HR platform. The free lightweight HRIS covers records and leave, which is sufficient for smaller teams and complements a full suite rather than replacing it.

Insight by Hyring · Leave

Leave Management Software

Requests, approvals, and balances handled by the free lightweight HRIS. What makes it different is the layer above: knowing whether leave was actually taken, and who has stopped taking any.

Published on: June 21, 2026Last updated on: July 20, 2026Read time: 5 mins

Written byAdithyan RKFact checked bySurya N

Free

Leave and records via HRIS

Verified

Was leave actually taken

Alerts

Accrual without taking

Employee first

Sees own balance and data

Direct answer

Leave management software handles time-off requests, approvals, balances, carry-forward, and policy by team or location.

Insight by Hyring includes leave management through the lightweight HRIS bundled free with Hyring. The distinctive part sits above it: because the product tracks the work alongside the balance, it can tell you whether leave was actually taken or worked through, and who has stopped taking any at all.

Leave in Insight by Hyring
Requests and approvals	Included, free via Hyring HRIS
Balances and carry-forward	Included, policy configurable
Statutory calculation	Not included, feeds your payroll
Leave actually taken	Verified against tracked work
Accrual-without-taking alerts	Surfaced automatically
Insight Pro price	$7 per user per month

What Leave Management Software Does

Requests, approvals, balances, and policy. The commodity part of the category, and largely solved.

Every product in this space does roughly the same things: an employee requests time off, a manager approves it, a balance updates, and a calendar shows who is away. Policies vary by team or location, carry-forward rules apply at year end, and reports come out the other side. There is not much to distinguish vendors at that layer, which is why it comes free with Hyring rather than being sold as a product.

The Signal Balances Cannot Show

A leave system records what was requested. It cannot tell you whether the rest was real.

What a balance shows against what happened

Two records of the same nine months

Leave system

Balance: 18 days accrued. Requests this year: none.

What it means

Could be anything. The system cannot tell you which.

With work data

Late finishes rising. Deep work falling. Leave booked, worked.

Now actionable

A specific person, a specific pattern, months of warning.

A leave system records the balance and stops. Whether that balance means someone is indispensable, disengaged, or simply saving days for a long holiday is invisible to it, and the difference matters enormously.

Two things happen in every organisation that a leave balance is structurally blind to. People accrue for months without taking a day, and people book leave and then work through it anyway. Both are visible in workforce data and neither appears in a leave system, because a leave system only sees the request.

Insight by Hyring sees the work as well, so it can distinguish leave that was taken from leave that was booked. Someone with nine months of untouched balance and consistent late finishes is a specific and actionable signal, and it usually arrives months before a resignation does.

Where Leave Sits

Request and record are commodity. Context is the part worth paying attention to. Payroll stays elsewhere.

Where leave sits in the stack

What handles what

Request

Employee raises, manager approves, balance updates

Record

Balances, carry forward, policy by team

Context

Was leave actually taken, or worked through?

Payroll

Statutory calc and pay run elsewhere

What You Get

Leave handled free, with the tracking and companion layer alongside.

The avatar nobody minds

A desktop companion that reads the day and talks to its own user first. It notices a 25-minute drift and offers a short sprint rather than logging a deviation.

Wellbeing built into the clock

Water and stretch reminders, the 20-20-20 eye rule, and an end-of-day wind-down. An attendance tool that pushes people to stop working is a strange idea until you have paid for burnout.

Listening rooms across the team

Shared focus music in sync across lofi, ambient, instrumental and nature, with presence showing who is deep in work right now.

Recognition in the same place

Kudos from colleagues sits beside the attendance record, so the system holds more than absence and lateness.

An assistant instead of a report builder

Ask who has stopped taking leave, or which team consistently starts late, and get an answer rather than a filtered export.

Custom reminders that stick

"Remind me to send the report by 4 PM." The companion holds it and raises it, without another app.

Because Insight by Hyring sits inside a hiring platform, attendance and capacity data feed directly into headcount planning. The question of whether a team needs another person stops being an argument and becomes a number.

Screenshot placeholderLeave beside the work record
An employee view showing 18 days accrued, none taken this year, alongside a rising pattern of late finishes.

The balance and the behaviour in one place, which is what makes the signal legible

What It Does Not Do

Three clear limits.

No statutory calculation. Requests, approvals, and balances against the policy you configure. Statutory entitlement calculation and payroll processing sit with your payroll provider.
No full HR suite. No appraisal cycles, case management, or onboarding workflow. If you need those, keep an HR platform and run this alongside it.
No shift or roster planning. Leave interacts with schedules in shift-based businesses, and we do not do scheduling.

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Adithyan RK

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CEO & Co-founder, Hyring

18+ years of experience

Adithyan RK is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyring, an AI-native recruitment platform that has run over 900,000 AI interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. He has spent 18 years building technology businesses, starting with a digital consultancy in 2008 and a staff augmentation firm in 2017, before founding Hyring in 2022 to rebuild hiring around evidence instead of guesswork.

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AI RecruitmentAI InterviewsRecruitment AutomationHR TechnologyHiring AnalyticsApplicant TrackingRecruiter Operations

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Surya N

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CTO & Co-founder, Hyring

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Surya N is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hyring, where he architected the AI interviewing engine that has now conducted over 900,000 interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. A mechanical engineer who moved into artificial intelligence, he spent 6 years building AI applications inside a technology consultancy before co-founding Hyring, and wrote the first version of its AI interviewer from scratch: a system that listens, adapts its questioning in real time, and flags fraud rather than following a fixed script.

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AI Interview SystemsConversational AIInterview Fraud DetectionPlatform ArchitectureMachine Learning EngineeringApplied AISpeech and Voice AIBias Testing and Model Evaluation

FAQs

Software that handles time-off requests, approvals, balances, carry-forward, and policy by team or location. It gives employees a way to request leave and managers a way to approve it without a spreadsheet or an email thread.