Add an employee

Creating someone by hand is the exception rather than the rule. It is what you do for a working student, a contractor, or anyone who is not in your HR system. In most portals employees arrive through HR Sync, including their location, department and supervisor.

Name, email and location are the required ones, and the location is the field worth getting right. It decides where deliveries go and which colleagues this person is grouped with. Department, supervisor and cost center can follow later.

The invitation is a separate decision. Sending it gives the person access to the portal, so it makes sense for anyone who will request things themselves. Someone who only receives equipment does not need an account at all.

A home office address entered here is stored once and reused every time something is delivered to that person. In a single order you would notice a wrong address. In a rollout for 300 people you would not.

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