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  1. AU Payroll | Employee - View employment duration date below start date

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    Gaining Support  ·  AdminSophie Lewis (Admin, Xero) responded

    Thanks for sharing your idea to display the employment duration for employees, much appreciated!

    After reviewing your idea, we've now passed it to the wider community to get behind and support it.

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    Bilal Badar commented  · 

    This would be genuinely useful, especially for the notice period and LSL estimation use case mentioned.

    The "Employed for # Years & # Months" format is the right approach, though the month calculation gets tricky when the start date falls on the 29th, 30th, or 31st. A start date of 31 January and a current date of 28 February would return either "0 months" or "1 month" depending on whether you treat February's end as the boundary. Xero would need to decide on that convention.

    For anyone who needs to verify the exact duration—especially for LSL calculations where the month count matters—I've found it helpful to cross-check with a quick utility that breaks the result into years, months, and days: https://agecalculatorsa.com. It makes the edge cases visible before you commit to a formula.

    The DOB field already shows age, so the UI pattern is established. This should be a straightforward addition.