With Personio, you can set up your company's structure to align with your organizational needs. This includes filling in company information, setting up legal entities, offices, departments, and teams.

• Improved organization: Setting up departments, teams, offices, and legal entities provides a clear structure that fits your business needs, making it easier to manage roles and responsibilities.
• Improved compliance: Structuring legal entities helps manage compliance and payroll effectively, ensuring you follow regulations. For instance, if your business operates in various countries with different tax and employment laws, you can create separate legal entities for each location. 
• Effective resource management: Setting up office locations and departmental structures improves resource distribution and policy management tailored to each site. For example, you can set up office-specific public holiday calendars. 
• Better communication: A clear structure defines roles and reporting lines, enhancing collaboration within the organization. For example, by clearly outlining who reports to whom, employees know exactly where to direct questions or feedback.
• Flexible hierarchies: Personio allows for hierarchical structures, including sub-departments and sub-teams, that can grow with your company.

Before you start

Before you set up your company's basic structure, we recommend that you fill in your company's billing information. 

Setup

To set up your company's basic structure, follow the instructions in the following articles:

1. Fill in your company's basic information
2. Set up offices and legal entities
3. Set up departments and teams

Tip
We recommend completing the Set up your company structure learning path from our Personio Voyager Academy to complement the information in this article.