My Organization

What this achieves

My Organization shows an employee where they sit in the company: who they report to, who sits alongside them, and who reports to them. It answers the orientation questions a new joiner has, without opening the company’s HR data to everyone.

A neighbourhood, not the whole chart

The important idea is that this is a bounded view. An employee sees the part of the structure they are actually in — their manager, the level above that, the people who share their manager, and anyone reporting to them. They do not get a browsable chart of the whole company.

Example: James Whitfield sees Olivia Bennett as his manager and the other engineers as his peers. He does not get a route into Finance, and he cannot walk the tree to reach Daniel Okonkwo’s reports.

Option	Description
Manager	The person the employee reports to.
Skip level	The manager’s own manager, so the employee can see one step further up.
Peers	Others reporting to the same manager.
Direct reports	Anyone reporting to the employee, where they manage people.

Safe fields only

What is shown about each person is restricted to what colleagues legitimately need in order to work together — enough to identify someone and know their role. Salary and personal data are not part of this view at any level.

Example: James Whitfield can see that Priya Raman is the Payroll Manager in Finance. He cannot see her salary, her address, or her identity documents.

This is enforced when the data is fetched, not by leaving fields off the screen. A view that merely hid a salary would still be sending it to the browser; this one does not include it.

Why this is separate from the org chart

Both draw reporting lines, so the difference is worth stating plainly.

Option	Description
My Organization	The employee’s own surroundings, bounded to their neighbourhood and limited to safe fields. Available to employees.
Org chart	The full company structure, with search, filtering, zoom, and export. An administrative surface in the organization section.

Example: Sophie Clarke uses the org chart to review how HC Corp’s departments are arranged. James Whitfield uses My Organization to check who his skip-level manager is.

What it depends on

This view is drawn from employee records, so it is only as accurate as they are. A missing manager leaves a person apparently reporting to nobody, and an employee who has changed team but whose record has not been updated appears among the wrong peers.

Example: if Tom Hargreaves moves from Operations into a new team and his record still names his old manager, his own view of the company will keep showing the team he has left.

What happens next

Most people use this to orient themselves and then move on to something concrete — finding the right person to ask, or confirming who approves their requests, which follows the same reporting line. Find your place in the organization covers reading the screen and what it shows about each colleague. Reporting lines themselves are maintained on the employee record and modelled in the organization section; if something here is wrong, that is where it gets corrected.