About the Employee Center Role
When you add the Employee Center role on an employee's record, you grant the employee access to the Employee Center. From the Employee Center, employees can do the following:
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View their paycheck history, employee profile, and W-4
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Enter and view time entries. Supervisors can review and approve time entries for direct reports.
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Enter and view expense reports. Depending on how you set up approvals for expense reports, expense approvers (managers or supervisors) can review and approve expense reports.
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Enter and view purchase requests or requisitions. Depending on how you set up approvals for purchase requests or requisitions, purchase approvers (managers or supervisors) can review and approve purchase requests or requisitions.
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Enter and view activities such as tasks and phone calls
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Access their calendar
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Access documents and relationship records
With SuitePeople HR, your employees can complete additional tasks in the Employee Center:
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Request time off and view their time-off balances. Supervisors can view and approve time-off requests for their direct reports.
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Recognize the achievements of their peers with Kudos
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Browse the Org Chart and search the Employee Directory
For more information about SuitePeople, see SuitePeople Overview.
The Employee Center dashboard can be customized by employees to show the information that they most need. Click Personalize in the upper right of the dashboard, or in the Settings portlet, click Personalize Dashboard. For more information about personalizing your dashboard, see Dashboard Personalization.
The dashboard cannot be customized if the lock icon (
) appears beside the word Home on the left side of the home page.
Understanding Restrictions for Employee Center Data
The standard Employee Center role can filter purchase orders, expense reports, and time reports that employees with this role are permitted to view. Employees logging in with this role can see purchase orders, expense reports, and time reports that they own. If they supervise other employees and are listed as an approver, note the following. They can also see purchase orders, expense reports, and time reports that their employees own.
In OneWorld accounts, subsidiary restrictions are not enforced to filter time and expense report records that users with this role can see. Subsidiary restrictions are enforced to filter the records that users with this role can see, except for times reports, purchase orders, and expense reports. Subsidiary restrictions for the role are checked first, then subsidiary restrictions for the individual users.
Customized Employee Center roles built from the standard Employee Center role filter viewable records in this same manner by default.
Purchase Approvals and Currencies
If you use the Multiple Currencies feature, note the following. When you view purchase requests and purchase orders that require approval, how currency fields are displayed depends on whether you customize the view.
Non-customized View
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Amount – shows amount in base currency
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Base Currency – shows currency in base amount
Customized View
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Amount (Foreign Currency) – shows amount in foreign currency
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Currency – shows foreign currency