Employee Multiple Company Terminology
Certain terminology applies when you associate an employee with multiple companies.
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Employee Multicompany | Employee Multicompany is the term used to describe when an employee is associated with multiple companies. This set up is useful when an employee is reassigned from one company to another, either for a temporary work assignment or for a permanent employment change. You create a separate employee record in the Employees hub for each company that the employee is associated with. |
| Active Company | The active company is the company that you select when you log in to
DPS, or the company that you switch to during a
DPS session. The active company is also known as the current company.
When an employee is associated with multiple companies, several rules apply that relate to the active company. For example, when you process timesheet and expense report transactions for an employee, DPS processes transactions associated with the currently active company. If you want to process the employee's timesheet and expense report transactions associated with a different company, you can do so. To change the active company in the browser application, click the name of the current company on the toolbar and select a company from the drop-down list. To change the active company in the desktop application, select and then select a company on the Company Selection dialog box. |
| Home Company | The home company is the company in which the employee is currently employed. When you create a new employee record, the
Home Company field in the Summary pane of the Employees hub prefills the currently active company. After you associate an employee with another company, you can change the employee's home company to the other company.
If an employee works for multiple companies, it does not matter which of the multiple companies you assign as the employee's home company. |
| Company-Specific | Company-specific tabs, fields, options, and reports are driven by the company with which the current employee record is associated and include details for a single company. For example, employee payroll reports are company-specific because they show an employee's payroll information for only one company at a time. |
| Not Company-Specific | Tabs, fields, options, and reports that are not company-specific are shared across all the employee's records that are associated with different companies. These fields, tab, options, and reports do not change when you change the active company or when you associate another company with the employee. For example, any data that is used by CRM, such as the employee's name, licenses, experience, resumes, and personal information, is the same in all of an employee's records that are associated with each different company. |