understand that you do not need to use vacation hours for statutory holidays
Our HR software already accounts for federal holidays. When you put in the request for time off, you give it a start and end date on a calendar control, and it calculates the number of hours you plan to use, working around holidays, weekends, even existing PTO requests.
I'm not saying you should buy that software, but I am saying it's a solved problem... It's automatic, the user doesn't need to do anything special.
Now we have other forms that COULD be automatic but AREN'T which causes big issues when people make simple typos... But I don't see the need to run an energy consuming LLM to implement that feature.
lucas@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
Why would you use an LLM for this? This sounds like a process easily handles by conventional logic, which would be cheaper, faster, and actually reliable… (The ‘notes’ part notwithstanding I guess, but calculations in general are definitely not a good use of an LLM)
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Normally I’d agree, and we used some of that in the original form (like maximum hours, checking for negative submissions, etc.) but requests don’t always follow simple logic and more complex logic just led to failures every time a user did something other than take a standard full day off.
Some employees work 7 hours, while others are 7.5, some have flex days and hours that change that, sometimes requests are only for part days, sometimes they may use multiple leave types to cover one off period.
I spent a few hours writing and testing the prompt against previous submissions to fine tune it.
So far it’s detected every submission error in the two weeks it’s been running, with only one false positive.
jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
If it helps to accurately fill in the details correctly in the backend system, which are then properly validated or escalated for human review/intervention (and let the human requester choose the escalation path too, as opposed to blindly submitting), then it sounds great.
Guided experiences, leading to the desired outcome, with less need for confused humans to talk to confused humans.
I want the same for most financial approvals in my company. Finance folks speak a different language to most employees, but they have an oversized impact on defining business processes, slowing down innovation, frustrating employees, and often driving costs UP.