Company, departments and job roles
Before you add employees, it helps to have your organisation's structure in place: the company record itself, its departments, and the job positions and job roles people will be assigned to. These live under Settings → Base.
Company
Settings → Base → Company lists the company record — name, headquarters flag, city, country and date format. Your organisation's primary record is marked HQ. Use Edit to correct it, or Add Company if your BlueOneHR workspace covers more than one legal entity.
This section is marked Sensitive in the product itself: company identity underlies every other record, so changes here are worth making deliberately rather than as a quick fix.
The screenshot above shows the Department tab; Company is the adjacent tab carrying the row described above.
Departments
Settings → Base → Department is a flat list of department names — Engineering, Finance, Marketing, and whatever else your organisation uses. Add Department to create one; Edit or Delete an existing one. Departments are what the Employees list groups and filters by, and what a contract records against an employee.
Job Positions and Job Role
Alongside Department are Job Positions and Job Role — two related but separate lists. BlueOneHR keeps them apart deliberately: a job position is the seat itself (for example, "Software Engineer"), while a job role groups the responsibilities and permissions that come with it. Set both up before you need to assign an employee to either.
What happens next
None of this is required before you can add a single employee — department and job position fields on the employee form are simply blank until you create the values first. It matters most once you have more than a handful of people, when filtering, reporting and payroll all lean on this structure being in place.