Adding and editing departments and connecting them to cost centers.

Departments, together with offices, are the building steps to create an organizational chart in Simployer One. 

There are no rules on how you should categorize these but our recommendation is to of course mirror it to your actual organization. 

Adding a new department

1. Head over to People > Departments > + Add new.

2. Information needed: 

• Name - The name of the department e.g. HR, IT or Finance.

• Description - A description of what the department does.

• Cost center - Employees in this department will get the selected cost center by default, but this can be overridden on a per-colleague level. (Read more about it here if you haven't created cost centers yet.)

• Parent department - This will be used to organize sub-departments. 

If you're not going to use Cost centers in Simployer One then you can skip that part.

A TIP! Start at the top of your department hierarchy, this way adding sub-departments will be easier as their parent department will already have been added

Next up - Setting up Offices