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The employee profile is the single 360° view of one person — their identity, their contracts, their leave and attendance, their pay, their performance, their documents, and their place in their lifecycle from onboarding to separation. It’s organised as a hub: a hero panel with the essentials at the top, a left-hand navigation rail (a tab strip on mobile), and a panel that swaps as you move between sections. This page is a map of the profile. It explains the header and its actions, then walks each section at a high level and points you to the detailed module pages where the real work happens. You’ll find this at: /hr/employees/:id (click any employee in the directory)
📷 Screenshot: Employee profile showing the hero header, the left section rail and the Overview panel — to be added.
The profile accepts an optional ?section= query parameter so other parts of the app (for example the accounting “Employee” party links) can drop you straight onto a specific tab — e.g. /hr/employees/<id>?section=payslips. Without it, the profile opens on Overview.

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The header and its actions

The hero panel is the single source of identity: avatar, full name, status badge, and the key metadata — position (with the title / position-type fallback), department, manager, employment type, hire date and tenure. It also surfaces the login account state — whether an account is linked, whether an invitation is still pending — with inline actions to invite, link, resend the invitation, or unlink the account. The primary actions sit in the page header (top-right), each gated by permission:
⚠️ Current state — action gating. These header buttons are deliberately gated on the coarse hr:write / hr:admin slugs that the API actually enforces, rather than the finer hr-employees:* scopes used elsewhere, so that a manager the API would authorise isn’t hidden out of the buttons. If a button is unexpectedly missing or present for a role, this slug choice is why — it’s been noted for the team.
There’s also a confirmation when you unlink an account: it warns that the person loses self-service (My HR) access, but their user account and any other product access are left intact.

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The sections

The rail groups the sections so related things sit together. Each panel is a high-level summary that links onward to the full module page.

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Profile

  • Overview — the landing panel. Pulls together an Employment summary (department, position, type, reports-to, work location, start/hire dates, tenure, and termination date if any), a Compensation snapshot for the active contract, a Personal & contact block (gender, date of birth with age, employee number, email, phone, location, address), a Leave balances snapshot for the current year, and an App access panel showing the employee’s access and its status with a Request access action (app access). If a transfer is awaiting approval, a banner appears here. Quick links jump to the History, Documents and Leave sections.
  • Documents — files attached to this employee (contracts, IDs, certificates, CVs). Upload, categorise and download here; this is the same data shown on the standalone documents page. See HR documents.

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Work

  • Employment — the employee’s employment history: every contract, newest first, with type, dates, tenure, location and manager. Add a new employment record, or click one to open its detail sheet (contract, role & placement, statutory & bank details, compensation, leave approver, and the End Employment action). This is the deep contract surface — see Employment records & contracts.
  • Work History — a chronological timeline of life events: hires, transfers, promotions and contract endings, drawn from the contract, transfer and promotion records.
  • Attendance — the employee’s attendance and check-in records. See Attendance.

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Time Off

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Growth

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Compensation

  • Payslips — the employee’s generated payslips. See Payslips.
  • Advances & Loans — salary advances and employee loans. See Employee loans & loan types.
  • Expenses & Reimbursements — expense claims and reimbursements tied to this employee.
These three panels are loaded on demand (so payroll data isn’t pulled in until you open them); you may briefly see a skeleton.

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Lifecycle

  • Onboarding — the new-joiner onboarding checklist/activities for this employee. See Onboarding.
  • Grievances — grievances raised by or about this employee. See Grievances.
  • Separation — the offboarding record. Available when the employee is being separated. See Separation (offboarding).

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System

  • Activity — the audit-style activity timeline and a comment thread for this employee record.

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Permissions

The compensation, performance, attendance and leave panels also respect their own module permissions for any actions taken inside them.