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Employee groups or departments are useful to group the employees in a logical way. By default there is only a "departmental hierarchy" to define, where you can define your departments in the following hierarchical way:

In the definition screen of the employee groups you can define the following fields:

Employee Group

Reference number which is automatically generated by the application.

Descriptions

Description of the department (in the languages that are activated for the user).

Hierarchy

Currently you can only indicate "Departmental hierarchy" here.

Hierarchy Level

This field indicates at which level you want to position the current department in  the hierarchy (Company, Sub Company, Department, Sub Department).

Parent Group

Here you can specify the parent department in the hierarchy (for example a sub department "Marketing" with the parent group the department "Sales").

Using Employee Groups

In the employee screen you can assign in the tab "Extra info" the defined groups here in the field "Department" for each employee: