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Employees
This guide covers the Employees screen — the company-wide directory of every employee record, and the tools to browse, create, edit, import, export, and bulk-update them. For the screen an employee sees for their own record, see Profile.
Purpose
This answers: "Who works here, and how do I manage that list at scale?"
The Employee List
- Shows every employee, with search, filter, and grouping.
- Active employees are shown by default; archived (inactive) employees can be included by widening the filter.
- Can be viewed as a table or as cards.
- Opening a specific employee's record shows their full detail — personal information, work information, bank details, and the tabs covered elsewhere in this guide (notes, documents, shift & work type activity).
Creating & Editing an Employee
- Creating an employee provisions their login to the system automatically — see Profile: How a Login Account Is Created.
- A duplicate email is blocked across every company, not just the one currently selected — a person can't accidentally end up with two accounts using the same email.
- Editing work information can create new departments, job positions, or shifts on the fly, right from the same form, instead of requiring a separate trip to Settings or Configuration first.
Bulk Update
Rather than opening records one at a time, an administrator can select a group of employees from the list, choose which fields to update — personal details, work information, or bank details — and apply the same new value to all of them in a single action.
Import & Export
- Import accepts an Excel file of full name, email, and phone number, creating a new employee (and login) for each row that doesn't already match an existing account by email.
- Export downloads the current employee list to Excel.
- Work information has its own separate import/export, for updating department, job position, shift, and similar fields in bulk via spreadsheet.
What Each User Sees
| Action | Employee | Reporting Manager | HR Administrator |
|---|---|---|---|
| View their team's profiles | — | ✅ | ✅ |
| View every employee company-wide | — | — | ✅ |
| Create a new employee | — | — | ✅ |
| Edit any employee's details | — | — | ✅ |
| Bulk-update, import, or export employees | — | — | ✅ |
| Archive, reactivate, or delete an employee | — | — | ✅ |
See Archiving & Access for the last row.
How Visibility Is Decided
- The reporting line. A reporting manager can view and update their team's details.
- Permissions. Creating employees, editing any record beyond one's own team, and every bulk/import/export action all require the relevant permission.
- Feature-level restrictions. Browsing the employee list and viewing individual detail pages can each be narrowed to specific employees by an administrator — open to everyone (subject to the above) until configured otherwise.
- Company. Employees belong to the company their work information is set to.
Customization Options
- Badge ID prefix is configurable, used when auto-generating the next employee ID.
- Feature-level access for browsing the list and viewing individual profiles can each be scoped to a subset of employees.
Good to Know
- This screen and Profile show the same kind of record, just at different scope — Employees is the company-wide view; Profile is permanently scoped to yourself.
- Bulk update, import, and export all require the same "change" or "add" employee permission — there's no separate, lighter permission just for spreadsheet-based edits.
Every employee, one directory.

