Bulk actions
Change many employees at once: archive, restore, edit fields and assign keywords.
Written By Karl
Last updated About 9 hours ago
Select several employees in the Employees list to change them all at once.
Who can do this: Administrators.
Where: Employees → Overview → select rows
Available actions
Archive and Restore: take people out of the active list, or bring them back.
Delete Permanently: available for archived employees only.
Bulk field edit: set Position, Organization Unit, Education, Gender or a custom field for everyone selected.
Assign Keywords and Recalculate keywords: see Keywords.
Edit compensation: see Bulk editing compensation.
Add Rationale Tags: see Explaining gaps with pay rationale tags.
Steps
Filter or search to find the people you want.
Tick the rows, or tick the header to select all visible rows.
Choose the action from the bar that appears and confirm.
Good to know
Bulk changes are recorded in each person's history with the source Bulk edit.
If your HR system is connected, it may overwrite fields you change here on the next sync.
Permanent deletion can't be undone. See Archiving and deleting employees, and GDPR data export.
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