---
title: "Read an employee profile"
description: "What each tab of an employee's profile shows: their details and relations, the groups they are in, their enrollments, deliveries and outstanding actions, and the sources behind the record."
sidebar:
  order: 2
area: directory
feature: employees
appPath: /directory/home
lastVerified: 2026-10-22
version: "2026-10-16"
audience: admin
screenshots:
  - id: directory-employees-profile
    caption: Select an employee to open their profile beside the list.
related:
  - directory/employees/reference-employee-properties
  - directory/employees/fix-missing-details
  - activity/enrollments/open-an-enrollment
---

The profile is the merged view of one person: what Pyn will use when it schedules a message for them, sends to their manager or decides which groups they are in.

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

## Steps

1. In Pyn, open **Directory** in the left navigation and select the person's row, or find them with **Search**.

2. On **Details**, read the fields: **Preferred Name**, **Display Name**, **Legal Name**, **Job Title**, the email addresses, **Business Unit**, **Department**, **Division**, **Location**, **Team**, **Birthday**, **Start Date**, **Termination Date**, **Tenure Date**, **Time Zone** and the rest. Fields your source does not supply are blank; **Probation End Date** appears only when a source supplies it.

3. Below the fields, read the relations: **Buddy**, **HRBP**, **Manager** and **Mentor**, each a link to that person's profile.

4. Open **Groups** for every group the person is in: the demographic groups for their department and so on, their lifecycle group, and any filter, relationship or static group that includes them.

5. Open **Activity**. **Outstanding** lists deliveries whose action they have not completed (**No outstanding actions** when there are none), **Deliveries** lists every message sent to them, and **Enrollments** lists their enrollments with a status pill. Select an enrollment to open it in Activity.

6. Open **Sources** to see the records the profile is built from, one per system: a HiBob employee, an Employee File row, a Slack member. **Sources** is shown to power users, admins and owners.

> **Note:** Fields are read-only on the profile. Pyn takes each value from the source with the highest preference that supplies it, so to change a value you change it in that source: the HRIS, or the spreadsheet you upload. [Fix a missing manager, time zone or email](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/fix-missing-details/) explains the order.

## What you should see

A panel with the person's avatar and name in the header, the four tabs, and values you recognise from your HRIS or spreadsheet. The avatar shows initials when no source supplies a picture.

## Related

- [Employee properties](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/reference-employee-properties/) for the meaning of each field.
- [Fix a missing manager, time zone or email](https://support.pynhq.com/directory/employees/fix-missing-details/) when a value is wrong or blank.
- [Open an enrollment](https://support.pynhq.com/activity/enrollments/open-an-enrollment/) for the enrollments the Activity tab links to.