---
title: "Export employees"
description: "Export an Employees table view to CSV and collect the file from Notices."
sidebar:
  order: 2
area: directory
feature: employees
appPath: /directory/home
lastVerified: 2026-10-22
version: "2026-10-16"
audience: admin
screenshots:
  - id: directory-employees-export-menu
    caption: The view-type menu on a table view holds Export.
related:
  - notices/download-an-export
  - directory/employees/upload-employees-from-a-spreadsheet
---

You want the list in a spreadsheet: to audit time zones, to start the next Employee File upload from what Pyn has, or to hand to someone without a Pyn login. Export writes the table's columns to a CSV and delivers it as a download in Notices.

## Before you start

- The view is a **Table** with columns. **Active** has columns and offers **Export**; a view without configured columns, such as **Upcoming**, does not. Save your own view with the columns you want if you need another cut.

![The view-type menu on a table view holds Export.](https://support.pynhq.com/media/directory/employees/directory-employees-export-menu.png)

## Steps

1. In Pyn, open **Directory** in the left navigation and select the view to export, for example **Active**.

2. Open the view-type menu: the button at the top that reads **Table**.

3. Select **Export**. Pyn starts building the file in the background.

4. Open **Notices** in the left navigation. When the file is ready a notice reads **Active_2026-10-22.csv is ready to download** (the view's title and today's date) with an **Expires** time.

5. Select **Download**.

> **Note:** An export holds at most 1,000 rows and only you can download it; it expires after seven days. The columns are the view's: for **Active**, **Name**, **Primary Email**, **Country**, **Time Zone** and **Manager**.

## What you should see

A CSV in your downloads with one row per employee in the view and a column per table column. To use it for an Employee File upload, add the `employeeId` column and rename the headers to the property keys in [Employee properties](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/reference-employee-properties/).

## Related

- [Download an export](https://support.pynhq.com/notices/download-an-export/) for the Notices side.
- [Upload employees from a spreadsheet](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/upload-employees-from-a-spreadsheet/) to send an edited export back.