Employees¶
Odoo Employees centralizes personnel files, employment contracts, and departmental hierarchies in one system. Properly configuring its settings ensures the dashboard shows each employee’s real-time attendance and work location—data that drives payroll accuracy, capacity planning, and compliance reporting.
New employees
Set up new employee records
Departments
Create and manage the departments employees are a part of.
Certifications
Certify employees as subject matter experts with certifications.
Equipment
Manage and track employee equipment.
Offboarding
Take care of employee records when collaboration ends.
Employee retention report
Gain insight to the retention rate for a company.
Settings¶
To view and configure the available settings, navigate to .
Employees¶
Presence Display: select how the employee’s availability status is calculated.
Based on attendances: marked available when checked into the Attendances app.
Based on user status in system: marked available when the employee logs in to Odoo.
Advanced Presence Control: when enabled, presence status can be calculated from operational signals rather than check-ins or logins:
Based on number of emails sent: an employee is marked present if they send at least # emails per hour; otherwise, they are marked absent. Enter the minimum number of emails that must be sent in the Sent Emails field.
Based on IP Address: an employee is marked present only when connected from one of the specified corporate IP addresses. Enter the IP addresses in the IP Addresses field, separating each address with a comma.
Skills Management: enable this option to display the resumé tab on employee profiles. This allows for the display of work experience, skills, and certifications.
Remote Work: enable this option to allow for a detailed schedule to appear on the employee form, in the Work Information tab. When enabled, the specific location can be set for each working day for the employee. The corresponding icon is displayed in the upper-right corner of the employee card, indicating their location by icon, and status by color.
Example
A green (home) icon indicates the employee is working from home that day. A (building) icon means the employee is scheduled to work at the office.
The color of the icon indicates the employee’s status, with green indicating present, yellow indicating absent, and gray indicating it is outside of the employee’s working hours.
Work organization¶
Using the drop-down menu, select the default Company Working Hours. The default options are Standard 40 hours/week, Appointment Resource Default Calendar, and Standard 32 hours/week (4 work days, friday free).
The available working hours listed are the same as the configured working schedules in the Payroll app. Working hours can be created and modified from both the Payroll and Employees apps.
Employee update rights¶
Enable the Employee Editing option to allow employees to edit their own data on their employee record.
