> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.bold-factory.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Employees

> Understand employees as the people recorded for time, assignments, and costs.

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](/en/concepts/work-mode) show relevant operations for that person. It does not grant application access permissions.

See [Skills and usual workstations](/en/concepts/people/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.

## Related

* [Users, permission profiles, and permissions](/en/concepts/control-panel/users-permission-profiles-and-permissions)
* [Skills and usual workstations](/en/concepts/people/skills-and-usual-workstations)
* [Work days, calendars, and shifts](/en/concepts/people/work-days-calendars-and-shifts)
* [Costs](/en/concepts/costs)
* [Employee guide](/en/guides/people/register-an-employee)


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