Overview of the Workforce Lifecycle

The workforce lifecycle is a series of stages starting with hiring, managing promotion, transfer, direct reports, contracts, seniority, termination, and enabling HCM worker notifications. Human Resource (HR) specialists and line managers perform various tasks in this workforce lifecycle.

Let's see what are the key tasks in a person's workforce lifecycle.

Task	Description
Hire people	Hire employees, contingent workers, nonworkers, and pending workers. As a part of this task, you also create the person's first work relationship with the enterprise.
Promote and transfer workers	Promote workers. Transfer workers within the same legal employer or to a different legal employer.
Manage worker contracts	Manage contract information in worker assignments.
Calculate seniority dates	Calculate a person's seniority in the enterprise using seniority dates.
Terminate workers	Terminate an employee's work relationship.
Manage direct reports	Add and reassign line reports and reports of other types such as project reports and mentees.