Creating a new employee

First, 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 the other fields are optional. Odoo will set the default working address to the company address. While most fields are self-explanatory, we will go over several of the more important fields in order to take them into consideration.

Get Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.