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# 🎯 How to exclude target hours on holidays in haddock HR

### 🧭 What are target hours?

**Target hours** in haddock HR are the **theoretical** hours a person should work according to their contract.
haddock HR calculates them automatically from the following data:

- The **hours per week** set in the contract.
- The **days of the week** marked as working days.

This calculation serves as a reference to compare against the hours actually planned and detect possible deviations (either above or below).

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### 🚫 Why exclude them on holidays?

If a person has a weekly schedule of, for example, 40 hours spread from Monday to Friday, but one of those days is a holiday, you may not want those hours to still be required that day.
To avoid that, you can activate an option in their contract that tells haddock HR **not to count target hours on holidays**.

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### 📄 Steps to configure this option

### 1. Access the contracts

- Go to the left side menu and open **Rules > Contracts**.
- Find the contract for the person you want to modify.
- Click ✏️ **Edit**.

### 2. Modify worked hours

- Go to the **Worked hours** tab.
- Turn on the option **“Do not add target hours on holidays”**.

### 3. Save the changes

Click **Save**.
From now on, haddock HR will stop counting target hours on days marked as holidays in the calendar.