{"id":254,"date":"2018-02-21T21:36:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T21:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/?page_id=254"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:55:18","slug":"eh-cannotwork","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/eh-cannotwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Your Own Cannot Work Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some managers allow workers to set their own Cannot Work times in their <a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/eh-set-preferences\/\">Preferences<\/a>. This can be used, for example, if you know that you can never work on Thursday mornings. If, on the other hand, you only want a certain date off (one particular Thursday), then you should use the Time Off section instead of setting repeating Cannot Work Times.<\/p>\n<p>These times are set on your <strong>Preferences<\/strong> page.<\/p>\n<p>In the top menu, click <strong>Prefs<\/strong> to go to the <strong>My Work Time Preferences<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Set-Your-Own-Cannot-Work-Times-1.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-579 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Set-Your-Own-Cannot-Work-Times-1.png\" alt=\"set own cannot work preferences\" width=\"700\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Set-Your-Own-Cannot-Work-Times-1.png 700w, https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Set-Your-Own-Cannot-Work-Times-1-291x300.png 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to click the <strong>Save<\/strong> button when done.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"extrawords\">Availability attendance<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some managers allow workers to set their own Cannot Work times in their Preferences. This can be used, for example, if you know that you&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/eh-cannotwork\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Set Your Own Cannot Work Times<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/emp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}