Employee

Represents an employee within a company or organization. This object is available in API version 48.0 and later. In API version 49.0 and later, this object supports reports, criteria-based sharing rules, and history tracking, plus you can exclude individual fields from custom page layouts.

Supported Calls

create(), delete(), describeLayout(), describeSObjects(), getDeleted(), getUpdated(), query(), retrieve(), search() undelete(), update(), upsert()

Special Access Rules

To access this object, you must be assigned a Workplace Command Center permission set license and the Provides access to Workplace Command Center features system permission.

Fields

Field	Details
AboutMe	Type textarea Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description Information about the employee, such as areas of interest or skills. Values can be provided on Employee’s profile page. This field is available even if Chatter is disabled.
AlternateEmail	Type email Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee’s alternate email address.
Availability	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee’s availability status. Possible values are: `In The Office` `Out Of Office` `Out Sick` `PTO` `Volunteering Time Off` `Working Remotely`
AvailabilityEndDate	Type dateTime Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The end date of the Employee’s availability, inclusive of the date.
AvailabilityStartDate	Type dateTime Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The start date of the Employee’s availability, inclusive of the date.
CurrentWellnessStatus	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee’s current wellness status. Possible values are: `Available To Work` `Remote Work Only` `Unavailable` `Unknown`
DateOfBirth	Type date Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee’s date of birth.
Email	Type email Properties Create, Filter, Group, idLookup, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee’s email address. This field is unique within your organization.
EmployeeNumber	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, idLookup, Sort, Update Description Required. The employee's employment ID for the organization they were hired into. This field is unique within your organization.
EmployeeStatus	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Required. The employee's current work status. Possible values are: `Active` `Inactive` `Leave` `Terminated`
EmploymentType	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee's full-time or part-time status. Possible values are: `Full-Time` `Part-Time`
FirstName	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Required. The employee’s first name.
Gender	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee’s gender. Possible values are: `Female` `Male` `Non-Binary / Non-Conforming` `Other` `Prefer Not to State` `Transgender Female` `Transgender Male`
HomeAddress	Type address Properties Filter, Nillable Description The employee’s home address.
HomeCity	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The city for the employee’s home address.
HomeCountry	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The county for the employee’s home address.
HomeGeocodeAccuracy	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update Description The level of accuracy of an employee’s home address geographical coordinates compared with its physical address. A geocoding service typically provides this value based on the address’s latitude and longitude coordinates. Possible values are: `Address` `Block` `City` `County` `ExtendedZip` `NearAddress` `Neighborhood` `State` `Street` `Unknown` `Zip`
HomeLatitude	Type double Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update Description Used with HomeLongitude to specify the precise geolocation of the employee’s home address. Acceptable values are numbers between –90 and 90 with up to 15 decimal places.
HomeLongitude	Type double Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update Description Used with HomeLatitude to specify the precise geolocation of the employee’s home address. Acceptable values are numbers between –180 and 180 with up to 15 decimal places.
HomePhone	Type phone Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee’s home phone number.
HomePostalCode	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The postal code for the employee’s home address.
HomeState	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The state for the employee’s home address.
HomeStreet	Type textarea Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The street for the employee’s home address.
IndividualId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description A reference to the Individual record that this employee is assigned to.
InternalOrganizationUnitId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description A reference to the InternalOrganizationUnit this employee is assigned to.
JobProfile	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee’s job profile at the company.
LastName	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Required. The employee’s last name.
LastReferencedDate	Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort Description The timestamp for when the current user last viewed a record related to this record.
LastViewedDate	Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort Description The timestamp for when the current user last viewed this record. If this value is null, this record might only have been referenced (LastReferencedDate) and not viewed.
LocationId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description A reference to the Location that this employee is assigned to.
ManagerId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description A reference to the Employee record of the employee's manager.
MiddleName	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee’s middle name.
Name	Type string Properties Filter, Group, idLookup, Nillable, Sort Description A compound field of `Employee.FirstName`, `Employee.MiddleName`, and `Employee.LastName`.
NameSuffix	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee’s suffix.
OutOfOfficeMessage	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The message portion of the employee availability. This message can provide reasons or details about the change in availability. The maximum length of this string is 40 characters.

OwnerId	Type reference Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description The ID of the user who currently owns this record. Default value is the user logged in to the API to perform the create operation.
PreferredFirstName	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The name the employee prefers to be called.
PreferredPronoun	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee's preferred pronoun. Possible values are: `He/Him/His` `Other/Ask Me` `She/Her/Hers` `They/Them/Theirs`
RelatedPersonId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description Links an employee to a person account with a unique value. Reserved for future use. Do not edit it.
StatusAsOf	Type dateTime Properties Create, Filter, Sort, Update Description Required. Start date of the employee’s current status.
StatusEndDate	Type dateTime Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update Description Planned end date for the employee’s status.
TimeZone	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update Description The time zone which the employee’s work hours fall within.
UserId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description Lookup field to associate an Employee record with a user in the org. The field is optional and unique.
WorkPhone	Type phone Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The employee's formatted work phone number including country code and extension.
WorkerType	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update Description Required. The type of worker for the employee. Possible values are: `Alumnus` `Contractor` `Employee` `Intern` `Temporary`
WorkingHoursEnd	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update Description The end time of the employee’s working hours.
WorkingHoursStart	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update Description The start time of the employee’s working hours.

Associated Objects

This object has the following associated objects. Unless noted, they are available in the same API version as this object.

EmployeeHistory (API version 49.0): History is available for tracked fields of the object.
EmployeeOwnerSharingRule: Sharing rules are available for the object.
EmployeesShare (API version 49.0): Sharing is available for the object.

Object Reference for Salesforce and Lightning Platform

Employee

Supported Calls

Special Access Rules

Fields

Associated Objects

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