{"id":50032,"date":"2026-10-30T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/kb-2026-additional\/how-outbound-and-return-business-travel-analysis-works"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:06:18","slug":"how-outbound-and-return-business-travel-analysis-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/en\/how-outbound-and-return-business-travel-analysis-works\/","title":{"rendered":"How Outbound and Return Business Travel Analysis Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this document you will learn how outbound and return business travel analysis works in Attendico by splitting one recorded trip into two analytical legs. The Outbound and Return option can represent a recorded business-trip interval as two analytical legs: travel to the visited destination and travel back. It does not mean two additional employee attendance scans occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is this option for?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use this for an interval that covers a real round trip, especially when the start and end place are the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Before you begin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The original Business Travel record exists.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You know the visited destination and can review the start and end locations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Understanding the controls<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<dl>\n<dt><strong>Outbound and Return (x2)<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Enables a return-leg analysis.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Visited Address<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Intermediate location for the travel route.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Save and Recalculate<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Saves settings and requests new estimates.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Outbound \/ Return Rows<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Analytical legs displayed in the detail table.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step-by-step instructions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open Business Travel and select the trip Details.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Review recorded start and finish places.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the exact visited address when required.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enable Outbound and Return (x2).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click Save and Recalculate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Review the resulting Outbound and Return table rows.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compare the analytical legs and estimated distances with the known journey.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the analysis is not appropriate, revisit the option and address data rather than editing attendance timestamps.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>[SCREENSHOT PLACEHOLDER \u2014 Add an authentic screenshot of this ATS Cloud screen. No image, worker identity or sample data has been fabricated.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What happens next?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The interface describes a 50\/50 analytical split of the recorded absence for two legs; these are not independently observed employee events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Outbound and Return option can represent a recorded business-trip interval as two analytical legs: travel to the visited destination and travel back. It does not mean two additional employee attendance scans occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-travel-details"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50348,"href":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50032\/revisions\/50348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attendico.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}