Enabling SuitePeople HR Information System Features

Important:

To use some of the employee and payroll features, you need SuitePeople HR or SuitePeople U.S. Payroll set up on your account. For more information, see SuitePeople Overview.

If you're an Administrator, you can enable the following features on the Employees subtab of the Enable Features page at Setup > Company > Enable Features.

Feature	Description
Compensation Tracking	Track basic wage and salary information for employees directly from their records.
Job Management	Create jobs with job descriptions and assign them to employees.
Job Requisitions	Create job requisitions for recruiting, link them to jobs, and track their status through the hiring process.
Effective Dating	Make changes to an employee record with back-dated or future dates. View an employee's timeline to see key milestones and career changes. For details, see Viewing an Employee’s Timeline.
Time-Off Management	Define and manage time-off plans according to company policies and assign them to employees by location, department, class, or subsidiary.
Employee Change Requests	Manage change approvals for the employee record. Managers can create employee change requests for their direct reports and send them through approval in the Employee Center.
Termination Reason Tracking	Specify various termination details on the employee record. If Workforce Analytics is enabled, you can get a snapshot and synopsis of employees leaving your company and why they on the Turnover Analysis page (Reports > Employees/HR).
Basic Government-Issued ID Tracking	Track various government-issued IDs for your employees. You can enable either Basic or Advanced Government-Issued ID Tracking, but not both.
Advanced Government-Issued ID Tracking	Create, edit, and delete custom types of government-issued IDs to match your company’s employee identification policies. You can enable either Basic or Advanced Government-Issued ID Tracking features, but not both.
Workforce Analytics	Measure and analyze your company's headcount, hiring, and turnover trends. To open the Turnover Analysis page (Reports > Employees/HR), make sure the Termination Reason Tracking box is checked.
Employee Center Dashboard Publishing	Set up default dashboard portlets and layout for the Employee Center, including a manager dashboard, and publish them to users. Create news items for Employee Center dashboards, and limit who sees them by location or manager.

Feature

Description

Compensation Tracking

Track basic wage and salary information for employees directly from their records.

Job Management

Create jobs with job descriptions and assign them to employees.

Job Requisitions

Create job requisitions for recruiting, link them to jobs, and track their status through the hiring process.

Effective Dating

Make changes to an employee record with back-dated or future dates.

View an employee's timeline to see key milestones and career changes. For details, see Viewing an Employee’s Timeline.

Time-Off Management

Define and manage time-off plans according to company policies and assign them to employees by location, department, class, or subsidiary.

Employee Change Requests

Manage change approvals for the employee record.

Managers can create employee change requests for their direct reports and send them through approval in the Employee Center.

Termination Reason Tracking

Specify various termination details on the employee record.

If Workforce Analytics is enabled, you can get a snapshot and synopsis of employees leaving your company and why they on the Turnover Analysis page (Reports > Employees/HR).

Basic Government-Issued ID Tracking

Track various government-issued IDs for your employees.

You can enable either Basic or Advanced Government-Issued ID Tracking, but not both.

Advanced Government-Issued ID Tracking

Create, edit, and delete custom types of government-issued IDs to match your company’s employee identification policies.

You can enable either Basic or Advanced Government-Issued ID Tracking features, but not both.

Workforce Analytics

Measure and analyze your company's headcount, hiring, and turnover trends.

To open the Turnover Analysis page (Reports > Employees/HR), make sure the Termination Reason Tracking box is checked.

Employee Center Dashboard Publishing

Set up default dashboard portlets and layout for the Employee Center, including a manager dashboard, and publish them to users.

Create news items for Employee Center dashboards, and limit who sees them by location or manager.

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