Permission Groups offer a flexible approach to customize access levels for specific employee clusters. Here's a concise breakdown:
Create or Choose Groups: Select or create a permission group to tailor access control.
Access to Others: Determine if the group can access:
Primary team
Everyone in the organization
Direct reports
All reporting to group members
Individual self-access
Individual User Permissions: Specify what users within the group can access about themselves.
There are 3 types of permissions that can be assigned to a group of users (employees) in People Settings on different fields which are mentioned below:
Usage of these permissions
The permissions for each group can be changed using the below-mentioned settings, let us understand what these permissions are:
No Access:
Permission with a lock symbol means that the details/field will be hidden for either all the employees or for a particular group.
This permission could be used when compensation and bonus creation/edition can only be done by the HR Manager. Neither the employee nor the manager of the employee can view or edit this.
Similarly, Leave adjustment will be Hidden
View Access:
Permission with an eye symbol means that the details/field will be visible for either all the employees or for a particular group.
Upcoming approved leaves or holidays will be visible to the user however it can only be changed by the HR Manager
The employee ID of the user will be visible however can and only be modified by the HR Manager or HR Admin
Edit Access:
Permission with a pencil symbol means that the details/field can be edited by either all the employees or by a particular group.
Address and contact information can be changed by the user and hence the permission assigned to these fields will be Edit Access.
Leave: lets you customize the leave field wherein leave adjustment will be hidden from employees and only visible to HR Manager/Admin.
Basic Information: All the fields under basic information can be set to either no access/view/edit depending on the information in these fields like Blood Group and Name can be set as view however Emergency contact should only be visible to the Manager/HR Manager.
Similarly, fields of Work Information, Basic, Benefits, Assets, and Notices can be customized for the views according to the information stored in them.
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