Work From Home Request Form
A Slack message asking to work from home on Thursday isn't a request anyone can track, especially once the same employee has asked five different ways over a month. Collect the request type, dates or schedule, and manager approval in one place, so HR isn't reconstructing who's working where from a scattered inbox.
A work from home request usually starts as a quick message to a manager, a Slack ping, a hallway conversation, an email that gets a thumbs-up reply and nothing else. It works fine until someone asks HR who's approved for a hybrid schedule, or whether an employee is still covered to work remotely three months later, and there's no record beyond a manager's memory of a conversation.
Typeform's work from home request form asks for what HR and managers actually need before a schedule change takes effect: the employee's department, the type of request, one-time or an ongoing arrangement, the dates or weekly schedule involved, and the reason. Conditional logic branches from there. A request for an ongoing hybrid schedule can route to questions about which days each week and any equipment needed, while a one-time request skips straight to a date and a manager's approval. A request that involves relocating to a different state can route to a compliance review question instead of standard manager sign-off, since that carries payroll and tax implications a manager's approval alone doesn't resolve. Every request lands in one record instead of scattered across someone's inbox.
Connect the form to your HRIS or shared calendar through Zapier, and an approved request can update the team calendar automatically instead of someone updating it by hand. Ask for it before the schedule change takes effect, and HR has a documented record of who's working where instead of piecing it together after the fact.
A work from home request form is an online form employees use to request a remote or hybrid schedule, whether a one-time day or an ongoing arrangement, and route it to their manager for approval. Instead of an email thread or a Slack message, there's a documented request and a documented approval.
An email or a Slack thumbs-up tells you almost nothing three months later, whether a schedule is still approved, what days it covers, or whether HR ever knew about it. A form creates a record of the request and the approval, submitted the same way every time, instead of relying on a manager's memory of a conversation.
Ask for what HR and managers will actually need to track the request:
- Employee name and department
- Request type, one-time or an ongoing arrangement
- Dates or weekly schedule requested
- Reason for the request
- Manager approval or comments
Not necessarily. Working from a different state than the one an employee was hired in can trigger real payroll tax and business registration obligations for the employer, regardless of whether a manager approved the schedule. It's worth routing any request involving a location change to HR or legal for review rather than assuming a manager's approval covers it.
Yes. Add a file upload question and employees can attach supporting documents, like an equipment request or a prior approval email, in the same submission, no separate email required. Pair it with conditional logic so the upload only appears when it's actually needed.
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