The People add-on

People is an optional add-on. It holds the employment record that sits alongside the hours your team already tracks: profiles, time off, performance reviews, compensation history and HR documents. It is free, but it is off until somebody turns it on, so none of it appears in the navigation until then.

Turning it on

1. Open Settings → Add-ons.
2. Find People and select Enable.

The nav gains People, Time off and Reviews. Turning the add-on off hides them again and stops the data being changed — nothing is deleted, so you can turn it back on and everything is as you left it.

Who can see what

This is the part worth understanding before you put real data in.

• Everyone maintains their own contact details, emergency contact and personal accounts.
• HR admins see and edit everybody's record.
• Line managers deliberately see neither their reports' personal records nor their salaries. The one exception is leave: an approver has to be able to read a request to decide it.

Employment facts — job title, start and end dates, employment notes — are maintained by HR rather than by the person. They appear read-only on your own profile, marked "Maintained by HR". Start date is not cosmetic: leave accrual and tenure bands are calculated from it.

Owners count as HR admins whether or not the capability is set explicitly, so the first person in a workspace can always get started.

What is in it

• Employee profiles — contact details, emergency contact, accounts, employment record.
• Setting up time off — leave types, policies, who is on them, holiday calendars.
• Requesting and approving time off — the day-to-day flow.
• Performance reviews — templates, cycles, writing and sharing.
• Compensation — dated salary history with a change log.
• HR documents — contracts, right-to-work, certifications.