Perform the following setup tasks before first use of the Global Deployments function.

   To set up employee transfers and secondments:

In destination business groups:

1. Add reasons for employee transfers and secondments (for example, Career Development, Business Need, and Skills Transfer) to the Deployment Reasons (HR_DEPLOYMENT_REASONS) lookup.

   See: Adding Lookup Types and Values

2. For employees on secondment to this business group, define additional user person types for the Employee and Ex-Employee system person types. For example, define the user person types:

   • Employee on Secondment (for the Employee system person type)

   • Ex-Seconded Employee (for the Ex-Employee system person type)

   See: Defining Person Types

3. To identify the assignments of employees on secondment, define user assignment statuses (for example, Active Secondment) for the system assignment status Active Assignment.

   See: Defining Assignment Statuses (Assignment Window)

4. Add assignment-status-change reasons applicable to employees on secondment (for example, Employee on Secondment) to the Employee Assignment Change Reason (EMP_ASSIGN_REASON) lookup.

   See: Adding Lookup Types and Values

5. For employees completing secondments, add termination reasons (for example, Completed Secondment) to the Leaving Reason (LEAV_REAS) lookup.

   See: Adding Lookup Types and Values

6. In deployment proposals, HR Professionals can elect to exclude transferred or seconded employees from U.S. New Hire reports and specify a reason. To extend the list of reasons for exclusion, update the US New Hire Exceptions (US_NEW_HIRE_EXCEPTIONS) lookup.

   See: Adding Lookup Types and Values

7. By default, the Global Deployments function appears on the global People menu. Add the function to relevant HR Professional menus.

   See: Defining Menus

In source business groups:

1. Add the SSHR Release Information function for HR Professionals, which appears by default on the global People menu, to relevant HR Professional menus.

In both source and destination business groups:

1. Review the setting of the HR: Propagate Data Changes profile option at the site level. If you do not set this profile option to Yes, the application cannot automatically propagate changes made to the records of employees on secondment.

   See: Person Record Synchronization

2. Consider using the Checklists function to assign and track standard, repeatable tasks associated with employee transfer and secondment.

   See: Checklists Overview