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Org Chart

The Org Chart, introduced in the Phase 4 release, visualises your company's reporting lines as an interactive tree. It lives under the new Organization menu in the sidebar, alongside Departments (which moved there from its previous location).

[📷 Screenshot placeholder — Organization menu in the sidebar showing Departments and Org Chart]

The chart is built entirely from each employee's Reports To field — so keeping reporting lines up to date is what keeps the chart accurate.

Viewing the chart​

Open Organization > Org Chart. Each employee appears as a card showing their photo (or initials), name, an Admin/Employee role tag, and their status. Managers' cards show a count of their direct reports and an expand/collapse button, so you can drill into or roll up any branch of the tree. Wide organisations scroll horizontally.

[📷 Screenshot placeholder — Org Chart tree with an expanded manager node]

Only active employees appear in the chart.

What each person sees​

The chart adapts to who is viewing it:

ViewerWhat they see
HR / AdminThe entire organisation, including employees with no manager assigned
ManagerTheir own team's subtree, with the chain of managers above them
EmployeeThe reporting chain from the top of the company down to themselves

Managing reporting lines​

HR admins see a second tab, Manage Reporting Lines, with a searchable table of employees:

[📷 Screenshot placeholder — Manage Reporting Lines tab]

  1. Search for an employee by name.
  2. In the Reports To column, pick their manager from the dropdown (or leave as — No manager —).
  3. Click Save on that row. Changes are saved per row — a hint shows how many rows have unsaved changes.

The system prevents circular reporting lines — you can't make two people report to each other, directly or through a chain. If you try, you'll see "Cannot assign manager: this would create a reporting cycle."

You can also set the same Reports To field on the employee's record in Employee Management.

Why reporting lines matter

The Reports To field drives more than the chart: when HR schedules a performance review cycle, each employee's reviewer is automatically assigned from their reporting line. Employees without a manager are flagged during review cycles.

People (AI view)​

Phase 5 added a second way to view the same reporting structure, alongside the AI agents. It is read-only — reporting lines are still changed from the Org Chart or from the employee record.

Each person shows their Position, Role, Manager and Direct reports, and the chart has its own navigation controls:

ControlWhat it does
Zoom in / Zoom outStep the chart's scale
Fit the whole chartZooms out far enough to show the full structure
SearchJumps to a person

If the chart cannot load, a Status message appears with Retry.

Same data, different surface

This view reads the same reporting lines as the Org Chart above. Use whichever you're already in — but make edits from the Org Chart, since this view does not change reporting lines.

Related
  • AI Agents — the agent dashboard this view sits alongside
  • Ask Hera — ask questions about the same people data