Out of Office: How to set up Team and Subteam Assignments for OOO

Last updated: January 31, 2026

Learn how to set up your overall Support Hours, Teams, Subteams for coverage during employee vacations.

1. Support Hours Configuration

Set company-wide Support hours that cover your full operating window, then navigate to Teams then Assignment. From there, set the desired Assignment schedules (whether it's round robin or setting separate hours for international team coverage) to route issues to the appropriate regional teams during their working hours.

You can configure different Support hour schedules by region to account for variations.

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2. Set up Teams and Subteams for Coverage

Next, set up your broader Teams within Settings and add in your Subteams.

Create a hierarchical team setup with regional sub-teams:

  • Example:

    • Parent team (e.g., Global Support)

    • Regional sub-teams (e.g., APAC Support, EMEA Support, US Support)

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For overlapping coverage, you can also create additional sub-teams:

  • Individual region teams (APAC only, EMEA only, US only)

  • Overlap teams for shared hours (APAC + EMEA, EMEA + US, etc.)

Select Recurring Assignment daily or weekly schedules in Team Assignment settings to automatically route issues to the correct team based on time of day. You would set up the Assignment Hours here at the Team level. The Assignment hours are able to overlap.

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Tip: Make sure to check “Only assign issues to users with the ‘Active’ status” as this will impact how we set the OOO status later using the Active vs. Inactive status. Enabling the “Only assign issues to users with the ‘Active’ status” in team assignment rules also ensures OOO team members don’t receive new assignments. See "Trigger-Based Automation" below to handle issue replies when a team member is OOO.

3. Round-Robin within the Subteam

Navigate to the specific Subteam to set the type of assignment strategy within that team. In this case, we’re selecting Round-Robin. Click Issue Routing for the Round-robin selection.

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4. Setting up the actual Out of Office (OOO)

Manual Status Updates

Navigate to your own profile and Change Status to OOO. Team members should manually set their status to Out of Office in Pylon when they’re away. This prevents them from being assigned new issues via round-robin assignment.

Trigger-Based Automation

Set up Triggers to handle OOO scenarios:

  • Automatically reassign issues when a customer replies to a ticket assigned to someone who is OOO

  • You can also configure assignment rules to skip non-active users to ensure the OOO assignee doesn’t receive new issues. See the example below.

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Bonus: Holiday Management

Configure holidays in your Support hours settings so SLA timers pause when teams are off. Regional teams can each have their own holiday schedules.

Holidays affect trigger conditions that use "support hours" filters. Triggers set to run only during support hours will not execute on configured holidays, and triggers can be configured to send different auto-responses when tickets are created outside support hours (including holidays).

We recommend setting up a Trigger to send an automated holiday response. See the example below. Happy Vacationing!

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