Creating a new employee

Let's go ahead and see how we can add a new employee to our system.

Click the Create button to bring up the form for you to begin entering a new employee into Odoo:

The only required field in the employee form is the name. All of the other fields are optional. Odoo will default the working address to the company address. While most fields are self-explanatory, we will go over several of the more important fields to take into consideration.

Department

The employee department is a common way for a company to organize employees. In our example, we are going to create a production department and assign Tina Robbins to that department. After you have saved the record for Tina Robbins, edit it once...