Question: Using General Hour Types for Sick Leave - Performance at High Volume

Hi,

We currently record sick leave in Workfront using a dedicated Sick Leave task. Employees’ sick-leave hours are logged against this task.
 

Over time, the task has accumulated a million logged hours and a very large number of hour entries. We are now experiencing a significant performance issue: saving a new sick-leave entry takes at least 15-20 seconds compared to new tasks which take 1-2 seconds.
 

We are considering replacing the task-based approach with Workfront’s built-in Sick Time General Hour Type, so employees would record sick leave directly on their timesheets without associating it with a task, project or issue (or) create new sick-leave tasks for every financial year.
 

Before making this change, I would appreciate feedback from other Workfront customers:

• Are you using General Hour Types for sick leave, vacation or other non-project time?
• Have you experienced slower timesheet auto-saving as the number of Hour records has increased?

Thank you in advance for sharing your experience.