3 Excel Date Functions You Need in Your Toolkit | Data Driven Insights

Ever struggled to calculate employee work hours fairly in Excel? 😩 Here’s a simple Excel formula setup to automatically compute: ✅ Total Work Hours (with 1-hour break) ✅ Overtime (only if beyond 6:00 PM) 1. Total Hours Formula: =MAX(0, MIN(C2, TIME(17,0,0)) - MAX(B2, TIME(8,0,0)) - TIME(1,0,0)) * 24 ✅ What it does: Ensures that early clock-ins before 8:00 AM are ignored Cuts off total hours at 5:00 PM max, even if someone stays longer Automatically subtracts a 1-hour break Multiplied by 24 to c