How to read the Health tab: status, overtime balance and recent weeks

Themes: App feature5 November 2026·5 min read·By David Lawrence

You open the Health tab and it tells you to take it easy, even though this week was a normal one. Or it says you're on track, and you know you've worked less than usual. Neither is a bug. The tab is answering a different question from the one you had in mind, and once you know which one, it's easy to read.

We've mentioned the Health tab in several posts, from counting your hours as self-care to taking time back after overtime. This is the post that goes through the whole thing, top to bottom.

The status card: a four-week average

The card at the top shows an emoji and a short message. It isn't about this week. It compares your average over your last four completed weeks with your average target over the same weeks.

Say the last four weeks were 38, 44, 47 and 43 hours against a 40-hour target. The average is 43, which is 107.5% of the target, so you're on track. A single 50-hour week in a run of 40s is also fine: 40, 40, 40 and 50 average 42.5.

What the card shows depends on where the average lands:

• On track 💚 ("Great, keep up the good work"): between 100% and 112.5% of your target. On a 40-hour week that's 40 to 45 hours.
• Over 😰 ("Take it easy, this is about your health"): above 112.5%. On a 40-hour week, that means averaging more than 45 hours. Four weeks of 46, 47, 45 and 44 hours average 45.5, and that tips it over.
• Under ⚠️: below your target.

There's an exception on the under side. If you've built up overtime earlier, a lighter stretch that spends some of it still counts as on track. With a balance of +12 hours, averaging 38 hours doesn't raise a flag, because you're using time you'd already put in.

The small ? button on the card lists these thresholds, in case you want them to hand.

When a week counts

A week is completed as soon as your weekend starts, so on a Saturday you already see the week you just finished. Until your first full week is done, the card asks you to keep tracking and gives no verdict.

Days off change the target

The target isn't always 40 hours. Each working day is worth 8 hours, and every day off takes its share off. A week with a public holiday has a 32-hour target, and a half day off takes 4 hours off. Because the card averages the targets as well as the hours, a short holiday week doesn't read as "under". The same goes for a custom daily target, which Clockflux Pro lets you set in place of 8 hours.

If you're not sure how a particular week was worked out, the weekly overtime calculator uses the same rules for a single week.

The overtime chart and balance

Below the status you'll find a line chart of your cumulative overtime, and underneath it two numbers.

Cumulative overtime is every completed week's hours minus its target, added up. It's shown with a plus or minus sign, as hours and minutes, so +3:30 means three and a half hours ahead. The chart appears once you have at least two completed weeks, and it shows how the balance moved week by week, with the date it was last updated.

If you were already ahead or behind before you started using Clockflux, enter that once under Settings → Overtime. It becomes the starting point of the chart, and doesn't show up as extra hours in your first week.

The label under the number says how far back it goes. On the free plan it reads "across 2026 only", and with Pro it says "across all completed weeks".

Daily average is your average per workday, counted from 1 January or, if you started your job this year, from your start date.

To take back a day of overtime, leave it as an ordinary workday and don't check in. Its target comes off your balance and the chart drops. Marking it as a day off in the calendar takes the day out of the target instead, which leaves the balance where it was. The patch post goes through that in detail.

Recent weeks

The list at the bottom shows each of your recent completed weeks as hours against target, like 43:15 / 40:00. The dot is green when you met the target and shows a warning when you didn't. A note such as "(1d off)" appears next to the target when a day off lowered it.

This is the place to look when the status surprises you. If the card says "over", the list shows which weeks pulled the average up.

If you've turned on break crediting, the hours here, in the chart and in the balance include the break adjustment.

What the Health tab can't tell you

It reads your hours and nothing else. It can't know whether a 46-hour week was a choice you enjoyed or a month of dread, and it doesn't see the evenings you spent thinking about work. Use it as a prompt: when it shows ⚠️ or 😰, ask what's behind the numbers.

Where Clockflux fits in

A good moment to look is Friday afternoon, before you close the laptop. Five minutes on the card, the chart and the list tells you if this was a one-off week or the fourth in a row. If you'd like that sent to you, Clockflux Pro can email you the same figures every Sunday. The docs describe each piece in overtime and work/life balance, and how to calculate overtime covers the arithmetic.

The Health tab is a guide built from your recorded hours. It isn't a medical assessment. If work is affecting your sleep, your mood or your health, talk to your doctor, a mental health professional or an employee assistance programme if your employer offers one.