Time tracking

Use this card to track your working hours. You can then check the tracked time in the Time off & attendance area. This table shows who can view the Time tracking card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

Profile

This card gives you quick access to some Employee Profile tabs, such as Attendance and Time off. This table shows who can view the Profile card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

Time off

The Time off card displays:

• Your time balance for "Paid holidays" time off (example: 21 days).
• Your balance for "Sick leave" time off, if configured to be taken a limited number of times.
• Your upcoming approved time off.

The card also lets you request time off directly from the homepage. This table shows who can view the Time off card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

Workforce overview

This card shows a snapshot of the employee life cycle, indicating how many employees are in each stage—such as onboarding, active, and offboarding. This table shows who can view the Workforce overview card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

Shortcuts 

Use this card to add links to external sites, such as your company’s website, so that all employees can see them on their homepage. You can add different links for different legal entities.

Note:
The system uses a DNS check to validate links. If the check fails, the URL is marked as invalid, and you can't save the shortcut. This might also affect internal company URLs, like intranet pages.

This table shows who can view the Shortcuts card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

Your documents

This card gives you quick access to your salary documents, like payslips. It displays the three most recent documents. This table shows who can view the Your documents card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

People

This card shows all your colleagues. You can see your direct peers, team members, and department colleagues. This table shows who can view the People card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

Left column cards

Inbox highlights  

This card shows overdue tasks from your inbox that need immediate attention and provides you with access to your full list of pending tasks. This table shows who can view the Inbox highlights card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

Announcements

This card shows important announcements from the company right on everyone’s homepage.

You can:

• Schedule new announcements to go live and expire on specific dates.
• Make the announcement visible to only certain offices, departments, teams, legal entities, or specific employees.
• Send the announcement to those specific employees via email at the moment it is published (delivery may take a few minutes).
• Add a cover image for the announcement. For best results, use 760 × 285 px for PNG files, or 1088 × 408 px for JPG and other formats. Personio automatically resizes and crops images to an 8:3 aspect ratio.
• Have up to three live announcements visible on the homepage at once.
• Get an overview of all expired, live, and upcoming announcements by clicking See all.

You cannot retrieve announcements that you have removed. 

Note:
Admins and employees with edit rights for Announcements see all announcements. This includes announcements you make visible to only a specific group they're not part of. 

This table shows who can view the Announcements card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

Calendar

This card shows the key events for your peers over different time frames, such as this week, next 4 weeks, and beyond. You can filter these events by your direct team, department, or the entire company. Key events include time off, working remotely, birthdays, and anniversaries. This table shows who can view the Calendar card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

What is displayed in the card?	It depends on your selection in Homepage settings. Go to Calendar to choose which events (birthdays, anniversaries, or both), for how long, and for whom will appear on the calendar card.
Who can view the card?	All employees.
How to make the card appear in employees' accounts?	You need  to grant employees the same permissions you would grant them for the Team calendar.

Celebrations

This card is a simplified version of the Calendar card, emphasizing the key moments to celebrate in the current week, such as birthdays and work anniversaries. This table shows who can view the Celebrations card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

Note:
The Celebrations card only reads from the preset Date of birth attribute. A custom attribute — even if named "Birthday" and filled with the right data — doesn't work for this card. For information about hiding the year of birth and managing birthday consent, see the frequently asked questions about employee management.

Interviews

This card displays all your upcoming recruiting interviews where you are the selected interviewer. This table shows who can view the Interviews card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

What’s new  

This card gives you quick access to the What's New page, with a summary of the new features and improvements added to Personio in the past month. This table shows who can view the What's new card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

Discover

This card features the latest products and services that might be useful to you.

You can dive deeper into these options and register for our team to contact you. If you're not interested, just click the three-dot icon and select Not interested. This table shows who can view the Discover card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.

Payroll

This card shows daily payroll tasks and data for each legal entity, if enabled. Payroll managers can see total gross pay, tasks, blockers, personnel changes, and approve payroll directly from the card. This table shows who can view the Payroll card and how to make it appear in employees' accounts.