# Set your working hours

Source: https://help.mucka.ai/engineers/set-working-hours
Category: Engineers
Last updated: 2026-05-27

> Tell Mucka when you're on the clock so on-time warnings and leave-now nudges only fire when they should.

Working hours are how Mucka knows when you're working. Set them once and Mucka will watch your location during those hours, fire "leave-soon" warnings before your next job and offer to draft a "running late" text if you're behind. Outside your working hours, Mucka is quiet.

## Where to set them

If your owner has turned on the [On Time Tracker](/skills) skill for your team, head to [**On Time Tracker → Settings**](/on-time-tracker/settings) and you'll see a row for each day of the week.

For each day:

- **Toggle on** if you work that day
- **Set start and end** (defaults to 08:00 to 17:00)
- **Toggle off** if you don't work that day (weekends, days off)

Hit save and you're done.

## What Mucka uses your hours for

During your working hours Mucka:

- Watches your location to calculate ETAs to upcoming jobs
- Fires a gentle pill warning when you should leave soon
- Fires a stronger warning when you should leave now
- Offers to draft a "running ~10 min late" text if you're behind

Outside your working hours none of the above happens. No tracking, no nudges, no pings. Mucka stops watching.

## Day off in the middle of the week

If a one-off day off comes up (holiday, sick, school run), don't fiddle with your standard hours. Tap **Pause for today** on the On Time Tracker page instead. Your normal schedule resumes tomorrow.

## Common gotchas

- **Doesn't show in the sidebar.** If the On Time Tracker menu item isn't in your sidebar, the skill isn't enabled for your team yet. Ask your owner to turn it on in [Skills](/skills).
- **Always-on driving.** Setting working hours from 6am to 10pm covers a long shift, but it also means location tracking runs all day. Mucka uses battery-conscious tracking, but the tighter the hours the lower the battery impact.
- **Two engineers, same job.** Mucka tracks each engineer's own hours and ETAs separately. If you're a lead engineer with a supporting engineer, you'll each get your own warnings based on where you actually are.
- **Permission errors.** On Time Tracker needs location permission. If Mucka can't see your location, go to your phone settings and grant Mucka the "Always" permission so the tracker works in the background too.