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Create and Import Employee Records
The Employee object is a Work.com standard object.
Create Employee records that, in addition to the required fields, have values for these fields:
Location: The employee’s workplace. To monitor your facilities by sublocations, assign each employee to a sublocation.CurrentWellnessStatus: The employee’s wellness status. This value is displayed in the Command Center. By default, the possible values are:Available to WorkRemote Work OnlyUnavailableUnknown—We recommend using this as the default value.
Employee records are related to Individual records. If an employee is created without relating it to an individual, a new individual is created automatically. After inserting an employee, by default the individual isn’t kept in sync with employee updates.
To keep employee records synchronized with their individual records, set the custom
setting value Settings.EmployeeIndividualSyncDisabled to false. Afterwards, changes to an employee’s mapped fields are pushed to
the related individual. The mapped fields are:
| Employee Fields | Individual Fields |
|---|---|
| OwnerId | OwnerId |
| FirstName | FirstName |
| LastName | LastName |
| DateOfBirth | Birthdate |
| JobProfile | Occupation |
When an employee responds to a survey, an Employee Crisis Assessment record is created.
The CurrentWellnessStatus is updated based on that
record. See How Do Wellness Check Survey Responses Map to the Data Model?.
To enable encryption for employee fields, see Which Standard Fields Can I Encrypt?
