During an employee’s tenure in an organization, they may experience different situations or have varying demands—they may get promoted, apply for leave, or get transferred to another team, for instance. Clearly, hiring employees is just the tip of the iceberg. Managing them requires a lot more work.   In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Cloud Delivery Lead Nigel Wiltshire, take a closer look at the Employee Life Cycle, which pertains to how employee information, separation, and absence are dealt with.   Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   --------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started. 00:26 Lois: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I’m Lois Houston, Director of Product Innovation and Go to Market Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor. Nikita: Hi everyone! Last week, we spoke about the Applicant Life Cycle, which is the first in the overall HCM business process life cycle, with our Cloud Delivery Lead Nigel Wiltshire. Nigel joins us once again today to talk about the second life cycle, the Employee. 00:54 Lois: Right. And since we’re walking through HCM business processes, you might want to go back and listen to the last few episodes so you can get an idea of the big picture and the life cycles we’ve already discussed. Nigel, we’re so glad you’re back with us again this week. Thanks for agreeing to be our guide through this series. You know, I’ve never really thought about there being a “life cycle” for an employee. I’m an employee, but I just never really considered myself as part of a cycle. Can you tell us a little bit about how that’s defined? 01:23 Nigel: Hi, and thank you once again for inviting me to participate. To put it very simply, the Employee Life Cycle continues from where the Applicant Life Cycle ends, and encompasses all the tasks that are performed against the employee from start to finish. Nikita: Now when you say, “start to finish,” what exactly do you mean by that? Nigel: Well, the very last act performed in relation to an applicant is for Recruiting to pass the baton over to Human Resources, so that HR can officially create an employee record, and take care of all the needs and tasks associated with an employee. This will typically range from transferring or accepting all the relevant data from their applicant record, expanding that to include their Work Relationship, and managing their career changes. 02:04 Nikita: Sorry to interrupt, Nigel, but what is a “Work Relationship”? Nigel: For each employee, we need to create and maintain a relationship with the business. This serves a couple of purposes.  Firstly, it establishes which legal entity they belong to. A legal entity is the governing body that takes care of all the legislative rules and laws that affect the employee, and from the HR perspective, it is going to control such things as employment laws, working time directives, absence entitlements, and taxation, to list just a few. Secondly, we need to provide the employee with an assignment. This will indicate what their remit is within the organization and will record such details as their Job, Department, Location, Work Hours, Grade, Salary, and much more. Many smaller organizations will operate in a single legal entity, so managing this is not a huge piece of the puzzle, but for larger organizations, especially those that operate