Where Can I Find an Employee's Manager?
Purpose: To show you how to add a manager to an employee's profile in BambooHR.
Reports to vs. direct reports
The Reports To column in the Job Information table defines an employee's direct manager*. This information is also displayed in the employee summary on the left side within every tab on the employee profile.
The Direct Reports section automatically lists the individuals who report to an employee. This information is also displayed in the employee summary.
*Please note, if the manager is inactive, this will be indicated by the text "(Inactive)" next to their name.
In BambooHR, you cannot assign two managers simultaneously to a single employee profile as the "Reports To" field only supports one manager. The system is designed for a single direct reporting structure per employee.
However, you do have options for involving multiple managers in your workflows and access:
- You can assign multiple custom access levels to an employee to grant different managers varying levels of access to employee data and features such as approvals or performance.
- For onboarding, offboarding, or approval workflows, you can configure multi-level approval paths where requests can be sequentially routed to different managers, including the direct manager and other supervisors.
To update an employee's manager, navigate the employee's Job tab and click + Add Entry in the Job Information table.
Select the new manager from the available list of employees in the Reports To field and click Save.
This action will add a new line of history to the Job Information table. To edit data in the current line, hover over the current line and click on the pencil icon.