---
title: "Employees"
description: "Every current, upcoming and inactive employee, with a profile that merges what each of your sources knows about them."
sidebar:
  label: Overview
  order: 0
area: directory
feature: employees
appPath: /directory/home
audience: admin
related:
  - directory/employees/read-an-employee-profile
  - directory/employees/upload-employees-from-a-spreadsheet
  - directory/employees/reference-employee-properties
  - integrations/employee-file
intercom:
  - id: "16755797"
    title: How to Upload Employee Data Manually (Pyn 2)
    url: https://intercom.help/pyn/en/articles/16755797-how-to-upload-employee-data-manually-pyn-2
  - id: "6024080"
    title: How to upload employee data manually (Pyn 1)
    url: https://intercom.help/pyn/en/articles/6024080-how-to-upload-employee-data-manually-pyn-1
    note: "Pyn 1 article, kept for reference"
  - id: "6024089"
    title: "How does Pyn determine a message recipient's time zone?"
    url: https://intercom.help/pyn/en/articles/6024089-how-does-pyn-determine-a-message-recipient-s-time-zone
    note: "Pyn 1 article, kept for reference"
---

Employees is the list Pyn sends to. Each row is one person, however many systems know about them; Pyn works out their lifecycle stage from their dates and status and files them under **Active**, **Upcoming** or **Inactive**. Select a row to open the profile: their details, the groups they are in, their enrollments and deliveries, and the sources the record was built from.

![Select an employee to open their profile beside the list.](https://support.pynhq.com/media/directory/employees/directory-employees-profile.png)

## The three views

| View | Who is in it |
| --- | --- |
| **Active** | Stage **Current Active Employee**: started, not terminated, active in a source. |
| **Upcoming** | Stage **Upcoming Joiner**: a start date in the future. This view has the **Add employee** button. |
| **Inactive** | Stage **Terminated**: a termination date in the past, inactive in every source, or removed from the source. |

Someone on **Extended Leave** keeps their place in the lifecycle group for leave and does not appear in these three views; the **Lifecycle** demographic's **Inactive Employees** group lists them.

The table shows **Name** (with the work email, or the personal email in italics when there is no work email yet), **Country** and **Time Zone**. Switch to **Gallery** in the view-type menu for cards. **Find** searches names; **Filters** offers the employee properties.

## What you can do here

- [Find an employee](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/find-an-employee/) with Search, Find or a filter.
- [Read an employee profile](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/read-an-employee-profile/): details, groups, activity and sources.
- [Add an upcoming employee](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/add-an-upcoming-employee/) who is not in your HRIS yet.
- [Upload employees from a spreadsheet](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/upload-employees-from-a-spreadsheet/) to load or update many at once.
- [Fix a missing manager, time zone or email](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/fix-missing-details/).
- [Export employees](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/export-employees/) as CSV.
- [Employee properties](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/reference-employee-properties/) lists every field and how stage and time zone are worked out.

## Where it is in the app

Open **Directory** in the left navigation; it lands on **Active**. **Upcoming** and **Inactive** are under **Employees** on the left. A profile opens as a panel on the right of `/directory/home`.

## Related

- [Read an employee profile](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/read-an-employee-profile/) for what each tab shows.
- [Employee properties](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/reference-employee-properties/) for the fields.
- [Employee File](https://support.pynhq.com/integrations/employee-file/) for the spreadsheet integration.
- [Employee Groups](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employee-groups/) for the audiences built from these people.

## Related Intercom articles

- [How to Upload Employee Data Manually (Pyn 2)](https://intercom.help/pyn/en/articles/16755797-how-to-upload-employee-data-manually-pyn-2)
- [How to upload employee data manually (Pyn 1)](https://intercom.help/pyn/en/articles/6024080-how-to-upload-employee-data-manually-pyn-1) — Pyn 1 article, kept for reference
- [How does Pyn determine a message recipient's time zone?](https://intercom.help/pyn/en/articles/6024089-how-does-pyn-determine-a-message-recipient-s-time-zone) — Pyn 1 article, kept for reference