Work Location for Jira: Improve Hybrid Work Visibility and Office Attendance Planning
Hybrid work has become the standard for many organizations. While flexibility gives employees more control over where they work, it also creates a new challenge for managers and teams: knowing who is working from the office and who is working remotely on any given day.
Without a clear system, employees may commute to the office only to discover that none of their teammates are there. Managers struggle to coordinate team collaboration days, and organizations lack visibility into workplace attendance patterns.
To address these challenges, Teamployees introduces Work Location - a new feature that helps teams manage and track where employees are scheduled to work directly within Jira.
What Is Work Location
Work Location allows organizations to define and manage where employees perform their work on specific days.
A work location can be:
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Office
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Remote
With Work Location, employees can indicate where they plan to work, while managers maintain visibility and control through approval workflows.
The feature brings workplace planning into Jira, eliminating the need for spreadsheets, chat messages, calendar events, or separate workplace management tools.
Why Work Location Matter
In a hybrid environment, visibility is critical. Many organizations face common challenges:
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Employees don't know when teammates will be in the office.
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Team collaboration days are difficult to coordinate.
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Managers spend time manually collecting attendance information.
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Workplace planning relies on outdated spreadsheets or informal communication.
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Last-minute changes create confusion across teams.
Research and industry experience show that employees are more likely to come to the office when they know their colleagues will be there as well. Teams achieve better collaboration when office attendance is coordinated rather than left to chance.
Work Location helps solve these problems by providing a single source of truth directly inside Jira.
A Centralized View of Team Schedule
With Work Location, organizations can easily view and manage work location schedules across teams.
Employees can quickly check:
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Who is working remotely.
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Who is coming to the office.
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Upcoming work location plans.
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Changes that require approval.
This visibility helps teams coordinate meetings, workshops, planning sessions, and other collaborative activities more effectively.
Instead of asking "Who will be in the office next Wednesday?", the answer is already available in Teamployees.
Built for Hybrid Team
Successful hybrid work requires intentional planning.
Many employees choose office days based on when teammates, project partners, or managers will also be present. When this information is easily accessible, office visits become more valuable and productive.
Work Location in Teamployees supports this planning process by allowing employees to:
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Plan their work location in advance.
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Align schedules with teammates.
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Update plans when circumstances change.
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Submit changes for approval when required.
As a result, teams can create more meaningful in-person collaboration opportunities while preserving the flexibility of remote work.
Approval Workflows for Better Control
While hybrid work offers flexibility, many organizations still need visibility and control over where employees work. Unplanned schedule changes can make office attendance less predictable and complicate team coordination.
With Teamployees, Work Location changes can be configured to require manager approval. Employees submit requests to change their work location, and managers can review and approve or decline them.
This helps organizations:
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Ensure compliance with hybrid work policies.
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Maintain accurate and reliable schedules.
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Improve coordination for office collaboration days.
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Balance employee flexibility with business needs.
Bulk Management for Large Team
Managing schedules for a few employees is easy. Managing schedules for hundreds of employees can be challenging.
Work Location includes bulk editing capabilities that allow administrators to apply changes across multiple users at once. This significantly reduces administrative overhead and helps organizations keep schedules accurate and up to date.
Whether you're preparing for a company-wide office event, adjusting workplace policies, or coordinating a department-wide office day, bulk operations make large-scale schedule management simple.
Get Started with Work Location
Work Location is now available in Teamployees on the Atlassian Marketplace.
Whether your organization follows a fully flexible model, designated office days, or a structured hybrid policy, Work Location gives employees and managers a simple way to plan where work happens - all without leaving Jira.
Because when everyone knows where the team will be, collaboration becomes easier, planning becomes smarter, and hybrid work becomes more effective!
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