Employees - Bold Factory

An employee represents a person who performs operational work. Use employees to record time, assign work, calculate labor costs, and analyze productivity. Not every employee needs a user account. Not every user needs an employee record.

What employees are used for

Area	Employee usage
Production	Assignment, execution, and time records.
Maintenance	Intervention time and main employee.
Costs	Hourly labor cost.
Planning	Capacity when employee availability is used.
Reports	Productivity, efficiency, and activity per person.

Users versus employees

User	Employee
Accesses Bold.	Represents operational work.
Has permission profiles and permissions.	Has a calendar, shift, and hourly cost.
Can manage data.	Can record time or receive assignments.

Link a user and employee when a person accesses Bold and also records their own work.

Skills and usual workstations

An employee can have skills and usual workstations to help identify relevant production work.

Setting	Usage
Skill	Indicates which processes or operation types they can perform.
Usual workstation	Indicates where they normally work.

This helps work mode show relevant operations for that person. It does not grant application access permissions. See Skills and usual workstations to learn how they affect tasks and assignments.

Hourly cost

The hourly cost should represent the business cost you want to allocate. It can include gross pay, employer contributions, overhead, or the internal criteria you use for manufacturing and maintenance. If the hourly cost is missing, actual labor reports can be incomplete.