Employee History Information

When current employee information changes, such as when an employee receives a raise or changes jobs, you must update the employee's record to reflect the change. You can set up the system options so that the system creates history records for employees whenever you change employee information.

You can review historical information from the date that you began tracking history. This allows you to analyze an employee's qualifications and work record. You can track employee history and turnover for any of the information stored in the Employee Master Information table (F060116). You can use history and turnover information to:

• Review an employee's job progression.

• Review salary increases that are given at the same time that a job change was made.

• Analyze historical changes to employee information.

• Analyze an employee's job history to determine whether the employee is ready for a promotion.

• Consider an employee for another position.

• Monitor employee movement within your company.

You can review an employee's history record for information as it was on a specific date. For example, a supervisor might need to know the annual salary that an employee was earning on January 1, 1995.

When you enter, revise, or review employee information, you can easily access history for a particular field. For example, you can review past changes to an employee's salary or position ID.

If you make a mistake and do not want to maintain the record in history, you can delete the history record from the history table.