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title: How to hand over your work while you are away
url: https://tideswell.xyz/docs/account/delegation
description: Name a colleague and an end date so they can act with your standing, and it stops on its own.
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# How to hand over your work while you are away
**Out of office** on your account page lets a colleague act with your standing while you are
away. It stops on its own on the date you set.
## Why does this exist? [#why-does-this-exist]
Because a purchase order waiting on one person's approval while that person is on a plane costs
real money.
Fairgreen's buyer goes to a trade show for a week. Without a handover, every order needing her
sign-off waits. With one, her colleague can decide them and the orders ship on time.
## How do you set one? [#how-do-you-set-one]
Pick the colleague, pick the date it should stop, and press **Save**. The card then reads back
who can act with your standing and until when.
**Clear** ends it early.
## What exactly does it grant? [#what-exactly-does-it-grant]
**Everything your role covers, not just approvals.** The card says so plainly, and it is the part
to read before you set one.
Your delegate can do anything you can do in this workspace, which for an admin includes managing
other people's accounts and your connected integrations.
Pick somebody you would be comfortable handing your whole account to, not somebody who merely
needs to approve one order.
## How long can it last? [#how-long-can-it-last]
Up to 90 days, and the end date has to be tomorrow or later. It is judged on the workspace's
calendar rather than your browser's, so setting one from a different timezone behaves sensibly.
It expires by itself. There is nothing to remember to switch off, which is the point.
## Does it chain? [#does-it-chain]
No. If your delegate has their own delegate, that person does **not** inherit your standing.
Delegation is one hop, deliberately. A chain would make it impossible to answer who is acting
with whose authority.
## Does it get round the approval rules? [#does-it-get-round-the-approval-rules]
No, and this is the important one.
Separation of duties still applies in full. Your delegate still cannot approve their own request,
and still cannot approve an order they created, even while carrying your standing.
That is a business rule rather than a permission, so nothing overrides it. See