Where Can I Find an Employee's Manager?

The article provides guidance on adding a manager to an employee's profile in BambooHR. It distinguishes between the "Reports To" column, which indicates an employee's direct manager, and the "Direct Reports" section, which lists employees reporting to a specific manager. The article clarifies that only one manager can be assigned to an employee's profile, but multiple custom access levels can be granted to different managers for various functionalities. Additionally, it outlines the steps for updating an employee's manager, which involves navigating to the Job tab, adding a new entry, selecting the manager from the list, and saving the changes. This process will create a new history line in the Job Information table.

  • Oct 21, 2025
  • Knowledge

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Where Can I Find an Employee's Manager?
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This feature is included in the Core, Pro, and Elite packages.

Purpose: To show you how to add a manager to an employee's profile in BambooHR.

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Reports to vs. direct reports

Definition

The Reports To column in the Job Information table defines an employee's direct manager*. This information is also displayed in the employee summary on the left side within every tab on the employee profile.

The Direct Reports section automatically lists the individuals who report to an employee. This information is also displayed in the employee summary.

*Please note, if the manager is inactive, this will be indicated by the text "(Inactive)" next to their name.

Can I assign a second manager for an employee?

In BambooHR, you cannot assign two managers simultaneously to a single employee profile as the "Reports To" field only supports one manager. The system is designed for a single direct reporting structure per employee.

However, you do have options for involving multiple managers in your workflows and access:

  1. You can assign multiple custom access levels to an employee to grant different managers varying levels of access to employee data and features such as approvals or performance.
  2. For onboarding, offboarding, or approval workflows, you can configure multi-level approval paths where requests can be sequentially routed to different managers, including the direct manager and other supervisors.
Do you need help updating an employee's manager?
Update

To update an employee's manager, navigate the employee's Job tab and click + Add Entry in the Job Information table.

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Select the new manager from the available list of employees in the Reports To field and click Save.

This action will add a new line of history to the Job Information table. To edit data in the current line, hover over the current line and click on the pencil icon.

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