What Makes an Owner-Absence Handoff Reviewable?

Research question: Does a handoff with source, boundary, next action, and return condition reduce unsupported action compared with a short status note?

Method: Create sixty synthetic cases with missing evidence, authority conflicts, changed deadlines, and valid routine work. Give two blinded groups either short notes or structured handoffs.

Measures: Report unsupported actions, correct holds, unnecessary holds, reviewer agreement, and review time. Lock the classification and calculation rules before review.

Decision boundary: Reviewers identify evidence conditions. They do not grant authority or decide pay, leave, access, eligibility, discipline, or policy exceptions.

Limitations: Live cases contain oral context, restricted evidence, and local rules that the synthetic set omits. A live pilot needs approved definitions, privacy review, an audit trail, and a stop condition.

References: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 (https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.CSWP.29); National Institute of Standards and Technology, Privacy Framework 1.0 (https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.CSWP.01162020); U.S. Government Accountability Office, Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government, GAO-14-704G (https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-14-704g); Philippine Statistics Authority, Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/annual-survey-philippine-business-and-industry). These publications provide control, privacy, evidence, and sector context. They do not evaluate Outsourced Employment or these synthetic cases.