EmployeeLifecycle

The right to-dos, to the right people

A hire is confirmed, and the chase begins: email IT for the laptop, remind facilities about the badge, tell L&D to assign the training, and just hope everything falls into place. Employee Lifecycle makes the event itself the trigger. HR chases no one.

Employment event
hire · move · leave
AUTO
access set
TASK
training
TASK
kit & check
routed to the right role, automatically
Asset ManagerL&DSecurity officer
HR sees every step, in one view
The problem today

The coordination tax

Every employment event sets off work in several places at once. When HR is the one holding it together by hand, this is the cost.

✕ A hire is confirmed and HR becomes a switchboard. Chasing IT, facilities and L&D, one email at a time.
✕ Day one, and the laptop isn't there. What still needs doing? Nobody can tell.
✕ A promotion goes through, and nobody tells IT. The steps live in someone's head.
✕ The last day passes, and nobody owns what's left. Assets uncollected, the exit interview never booked, no one sure what else is left.
✕ “Is onboarding actually complete?” Nobody can answer without asking around.
Event-driven

Process the hire, the rest follows

Process a hire, a role change or a departure in Popay Core, and the chain starts by itself. There is nothing to open and nothing to remember.

What runs depends on who the person is. You set it per job, location, entity or individual, so a sales hire in Belgium and a manager in the Netherlands each get their own chain, and neither gets the other's.

It can start before someone’s first day. A future employee whose contract has not begun can already be given their mandatory training, so day one is not their first look at the system.

The event fires the chain. No tool to open, nothing to remember.

Per activity

Manual, monitored, or automatic: your choice, per activity

Not everything needs a person; not everything can be automated. Each activity runs in the mode that fits it.

Manual

A person acts

Assigned to the right person, employee via self-service, manager, or HR admin, it appears in their tasks and is completed by hand, with notifications to prompt it.

→ human completes
Monitored

The system checks and executes

The system checks whether the conditions are met and completes the action by rule, pausing at whatever human checkpoints you set.

→ by rule, with checkpoints
Automatic

The system does it

Triggered and completed the moment the event fires: an access profile set, an activation email sent, a course allocated. No human step at all.

→ done on the event

There is no fixed template to follow. Which activities belong to which event, who they apply to, and how each one runs is yours to define, and it looks different for a hospital, a manufacturer and a professional services firm.

The chain

One event, every action that follows

In practice across joiner, mover and leaver: automatic actions and human tasks, each routed to the right actor.

From offer to first day

AUTO

Pre-boarding access

Mandatory training opens before the contract starts, so day one isn't the first encounter with the system.

System
AUTO

Access profile set

Granted from the job and location. The entitlement model lives in Organisation management.

System
AUTO

Activation email sent

The new starter receives login instructions for their profile.

System
TASK

Onboarding training assigned

Mandatory course allocated in Popay Learn.

Employee
TASK

Background check, gated

Onboarding can't advance until it clears (see Vetting).

Security officer
TASK

Kit provisioned

Laptop and mobile prepared; asset records created (see Popay Assets).

IT / Asset manager
AUTO

Leave entitlement opened

Pro rata calculated from the start date in Popay Leave.

System
AUTO

First review scheduled

The review cycle is placed on the calendar in Popay Perform.

System

From one role to the next

AUTO

Entitlements recalculated

Old rights out, new rights in, derived from the new position.

System
TASK

New-role training

Courses for the new function allocated in Popay Learn.

Employee
TASK

Manager handover

Outgoing and incoming managers receive transition tasks.

Managers
AUTO

Work pattern updated

The new schedule applies from the effective date in Popay Time.

System

From notice to after the last day

TASK

Asset return

Recover laptop, mobile and badge before the last day.

IT / Facilities
TASK

Knowledge transfer

Handover of responsibilities organised.

Manager
TASK

Exit interview

Booked and tracked to completion, so the conversation happens before the last day.

HR / Manager
AUTO

Access revoked on exit date

Profiles removed automatically on the departure date.

System
AUTO

Former employee access

A separate profile keeps payslips and personal documents reachable after the last day.

System
Routing

Every task has an owner, defined once

Each task goes straight to the role that owns it, configured once and applied on every event. Who owns what is defined in Organisation management; it simply routes to them.

Security officer

Gets the background check on a new hire, a hard gate onboarding can't pass until it's cleared.

IT / Asset manager

Gets provisioning on a hire or move, and recovery on exit.

Direct manager

Gets the human tasks: welcome, team integration, handover.

Any custom role

Payroll officer, compliance manager, facilities. If you have a role for it, Employee Lifecycle can route to it.

Cross-cutting

Employee Lifecycle spans the whole platform

It connects one employment event to every module that has to act on it. These are the ones it reaches most often.

Why it matters

From switchboard to overview

HR stops chasing and gets an overview. One screen shows what is done, what is still open and what is late, for a single employee or for everyone at once. Nothing slips, because nothing depends on someone remembering.

Mark an activity as compliance-relevant and it is followed until it is finished, with a trail an auditor can read. Compliance audits the data and the actions behind it.

The event coordinates itself. HR oversees, instead of chasing.

The Employee Lifecycle workforce overview in Popay HR: seventeen active programmes, each employee with their progress, status, next activity due and the colleague who owns it.

Today, every step starts with HR

When a hire, move or departure fires, let the right activities run, to the right people, in the mode you choose, without HR chasing a single one.

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