Locations

Create locations with addresses validated against your geographies, set the location set, associate legal employers, configure the attributes including inactive date behaviour, and see where locations surface: on assignments, on positions, on calendar event coverage. Location set assignment is where the global-versus-local reference data decision becomes visible. A location in the common set appears everywhere; in a country set, only there. That is the abstract argument from the reference data lesson with something concrete on screen. Remote workers need a modelling decision, and there are two patterns: a generic remote location per country, or the worker's home address. Both have trade-offs, and this comes up in every implementation now while the documentation predates it — so you will not find the answer by reading. And locations feed calendar event coverage later in this course. Set them up properly or public holidays land on the wrong people — a failure that…

In this module: Module 5 · Divisions, Departments, Locations and Trees

1. 1Divisions and when you need them
2. 2Departments and cost centers
3. 3Department classifications and reporting establishments
4. 4Locations
5. 5Disability organizations
6. 6Worker unions and collective agreements
7. 7HCM trees
8. 8Building and publishing trees
9. 9What breaks
10. 10Lab: build the management structure