There are some fields an employee can edit themselves as long as you enable this access in Employee permissions.
There are some other fields that even though you can't control whether they can edit the field, you can remove the field from showing at all.
Below we explain which fields you can configure access for.
📌TIP: We have a useful guide that runs through all available employee fields, and whether an employee can edit them.
Specific fields you can prevent an employee to edit
In Employee permissions, you can choose whether employees can amend the following fields themselves:
Work email
Employment status
Nationality
Profile picture
Date of birth
Date of birth visibility
📎NOTE: These individual field permissions only work if the employee's role has the Access employee information permission set to something other than View only. If Access employee information is set to View only, employees cannot edit anything on their Employee or Personal tabs, including their profile picture, regardless of what you enable here. To allow editing of specific fields, you must first set Access employee information to View and edit in the employee's permission role. For more information, see Configure permissions of your roles.
Fields you can remove
In Global permissions there are some fields you can prevent from showing in an employees profile altogether. This can be a workaround if it is a field they can edit, but you don't want them to be able to.
📎NOTE: These won't appear for all users if you deselect them.
Title (Mr./Mrs.)
Nationality
Employment status
Work phone
Driving licence
State
LinkedIn
Gender
Martial status
Employee #
Street 2
Home phone
Mobile phone
Stop employee from editing their Personal and Employee details
All employees by default are assigned to the 'Employee' permission role. If you configure the Access employee information permission the View only options, this means they can't edit anything on the Employee or Personal tabs of their profile.
📎NOTE: A user may still be able to edit these if they are assigned to another permission role that has this permission.
For more details on configuring permissions of roles, use our article, Configure permissions of your roles.
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