Is working from home counted as leave?
In PeopleMuster, working from home is modelled as a leave type with its own annual quota, requested and approved through the same flow as any other type. The person is working, not away, but the request runs through leave because that is where the approval and the quota already live.
The modelling choice is a real one and worth naming rather than hiding, because it surprises people coming from a different convention.
It reflects a workplace where home days are a bounded allowance somebody applies for, rather than a default arrangement. That is a widespread convention in some regions and unfamiliar in others.
The practical effect is that home days inherit everything the leave system already does. A quota. An approval step. A record of who asked and who agreed. Visibility in the capacity view.
Building a second approval path for the same shape of request would copy all of it for no gain.
The quota is the part that surprises people most. Home days are a bounded number here, set per year like any other allowance, and they run out. A company that wants more home days simply sets a higher quota.
The naming is a company's own. A type can be renamed, its quota changed and its paid flag set, so the wording a team sees is whatever they chose.
Read your own configuration before assuming how it works. The quota and the paid flag together carry most of the meaning, and both are visible on the type.
A company treating home working as an everyday default can set a high quota or rename the type to suit. The approval and the record keep working either way.
Check how your own company configured the type, including the quota and whether it is flagged paid. Those two settings carry most of the meaning.
Related questions
Does a home day count as an absence?
The request is a leave record, so the day appears in the leave view rather than as a present day. Whether it should is a modelling question the product answers this way.
Does it use the same approval path?
Yes, the same request funnel as any other type, moving through pending to approved or rejected with the same visibility.
Can we rename the type?
Leave types are configurable, including their name and quota. The naming a tenant sees is theirs to set.