DeskBridgePeople
Protected workforce records, employment lifecycle, recruitment, leave, talent, cases and payroll.

DeskBridge People

Sign in to DeskBridge Sovereign to open your assigned People workspace.

New global workforce record

Plan an organisation change

Simulate all affected changes together before independent review and controlled execution.

Changes

New People platform service

Benefits administration

Operate the governed catalogue, eligibility, enrolment, provider and invoice lifecycles.

New benefits operation

Benefit plan

Progress benefit record

Compensation and total reward

Govern review cycles, budgets, pay matrices, employee awards, equity and total-reward statements.

New compensation operation

Review cycle

Progress compensation record

Talent and learning

Govern OKRs, 360 feedback, calibration, internal talent, succession, careers, mentoring and learning.

New talent or learning operation

Talent cycle

Progress talent record

Performance and development

Govern evidence-backed goals, reviews, feedback, calibration, development and the approved hand-off to compensation.

New performance operation

Performance review

Progress performance control

Learning, certification and access gates

Assign governed mandatory learning, retain assessment and certificate evidence, manage renewals and fail closed when a required competency is not current.

Learning operation

Mandatory requirement

Progress learning control

Employee relations and wellbeing

Govern disciplinary, grievance, investigation, appeal, safety, occupational-health and return-to-work cases.

Workforce planning and forecasting

Govern headcount scenarios, skills demand, attrition and labour-cost forecasts.

Create workforce-planning record

Workforce plan

Progress workforce-planning record

Contractor operations

Govern onboarding, employment-status and IR35 classification, agreements, assignments, time, invoices, payments and self-service access.

Create contractor operation

Progress contractor operation

Contractor self-service access

Permitted operations

Employer-of-record operations

Govern country rules, local contracts, provider payroll, benefits, transmissions and reconciliation.

Create EOR operation

Progress EOR operation

Calculate EOR payroll

Global mobility operations

Govern international assignments, relocation, immigration, tax equalisation, costing, extensions and repatriation.

Create mobility operation

Progress mobility operation

Calculate assignment cost

IT asset operations

Govern hardware, software and SaaS licences, employee assignment, endpoint compliance and recovery.

Create IT operation

Progress IT operation

Record compliance

Open governed employee-relations case

Add governed case item

Participant

Progress case record

Create recruitment requisition

Record the controlled headcount and budget request first. A different authorised budget owner must approve it before conversion to a vacancy.

Progress requisition

Create controlled vacancy

This request begins the governed recruitment lifecycle. It does not create an employee.

UK contingent-worker / off-payroll determination
Mandatory pre-employment checks

Vacancy publication

Publish only the independently approved job description and employment terms. Provider responses remain linked to this vacancy.

Background and security screening

Govern providers, consented screening orders, signed provider results and independent adjudication.

Providers

Screening orders

Screening provider

Order candidate screening

Progress screening control

Recruitment action

Vacancy selection scorecard

Progress scorecard

Evidence-based shortlisting

Schedule structured interview

Record structured interview outcome

Open pre-employment check

Decide pre-employment check

Create governed offer

Approved vacancy compensation and engagement controls are applied automatically and cannot be overridden here.

Progress governed offer

Retain offer document version

Record candidate signature evidence

Candidate portal access

Create a replacement, time-limited link. Any earlier active candidate link is revoked automatically.

Candidate profile mapping

Map only approved structured fields from reviewed Vault evidence. People does not copy the CV or parse it automatically.

Create talent pool

Add candidate to talent pool

Role access profile

Define the least-privilege DeskBridge identity, Workspace, Sovereign licence and job-right plan used when a matching employee starts onboarding.

Onboarding template

Start onboarding plan

Progress onboarding task

Submit onboarding evidence

Review onboarding evidence

Create contract template

Issue employment contract

Progress contract

Amend or renew contract

Request employee change

Leaver cases use the dedicated closeout plan. Final pay, access revocation, physical asset return, settlement, reference and retained portal access must be independently reconciled.

Add leaver closeout evidence

Review leaver evidence

Verify final pay

Complete leaver closeout

Completion is blocked unless workforce closure, final pay, access revocation, asset return, settlement/reference decisions and retained portal access are all evidenced.

Retain former-employee access

Purpose-limited retained services

Activate retained access

Progress employee change

Reconcile impact

Payroll simulation and variance

Compare payroll

Progress payroll simulation

Acknowledge payroll anomaly

Secure mobile evidence link

Create a short-lived link scoped only to this application and the selected evidence types. It does not provide a People session or record browsing.

Permitted evidence

Hire accepted candidate

Create the workforce identity first. The complete employment, payroll, right-to-work and country-specific record opens immediately afterwards.

Employment record

Purpose-limited private view

Every protected field reveal, mask or denial is recorded without storing its value in the access log.

Employment lifecycle

Employee timeline

Employment, compensation, benefits, performance and governed evidence history, including effective-dated job, manager, department, location, contract and salary changes.

Work authorisation and credentials

Jurisdiction-specific authority, visa, residence, qualification, certification and background-check evidence with renewal and expiry controls.

Employee file

Identity, qualifications, certificates, leave, cases, employment evidence and documents.

Governed file packs

Version-locked onboarding, leaver, case, reference, review and audit packs assembled from approved Vault evidence.

DeskBridge identity and access

Core Directory entry, optional broker account, mail, Workspace and Sovereign assignments. Protected HR data is never shared.

Sensitive information access

Request time-limited viewing or a governed correction. A separate HR reviewer must approve access.

Record effective-dated change

Record worker credential

Govern credential

Employment and compliance

Employee identity and organisation
Protected personal and contact information
Employment terms, organisation and working pattern
UK PAYE starter and year-to-date data
Pay and workplace pension
UK workplace pension
Right to work or work authorisation
UK work authorisation and screening
Effective-dated change evidence

Required when changing job, manager, department, location, contract or salary. Personal and compliance-only corrections do not create employment-history facts.

DeskBridge identity and provisioning

Request IT or access provisioning

Only employee number, name, work identity, job title, department and employment status are shared. Payroll, home contact, health, case and statutory identifiers remain in People.

Progress provisioning request

Employee file item

Record details

Medical, case and restricted records are protected from ordinary managers. Link supporting evidence through DeskBridge Vault rather than storing raw files here.

Create governed file pack

Progress governed file pack

Add approved document to pack

New operational workflow

Operational details

Payroll calculation

£ - GBP

This is an explainable calculation preview. Statutory use requires a validated country rule pack and specialist approval.

Payroll calculation result

Workplace pension assessment

Pension provider file

Workplace pension operations

Review payroll-by-payroll assessments, original notices, elections, refunds, re-enrolment and provider reconciliation.

Record pension election

Progress provider file

Prepare pension remittance

Totals are taken from retained payroll calculations. They cannot be entered or adjusted here.

Progress pension remittance

Student and postgraduate loans

Retain HMRC start/stop notices and starter evidence, then reconcile payroll deductions reported through RTI.

Record loan notice

Reconcile HMRC loan totals

Court orders and attachments

Govern authority evidence, priority, protected earnings, arrears, administration charges and cessation.

Add authority order

Generate authority remittance

Progress remittance

Holiday entitlement and pay

Governed sickness and return to work

Medical documents remain in Vault. Their references are shown only under an active, purpose-limited access grant and every read is recorded.

New sickness policy

Progress sickness policy

Record sickness absence

Update sickness absence

Add restricted medical evidence

Grant purpose-limited sickness medical access

Revoke sickness medical access

Complete return-to-work review

New leave calendar

Add calendar day

New leave policy

Progress leave control

Carry leave forward

Progress leave carry-over

New governed holiday rule

Progress holiday rule

Add holiday profile

Holiday profile action

Holiday ledger entry

Add paid reference week

Progress authority order

Generate payroll payment file

Request payroll funding

Funding must be independently reviewed, approved and confirmed before the payment file can be released.

Record returned payroll payment

Payroll correction

Pre-approval payroll checks

Checks are effective-dated, permission controlled and written to the audit trail. Resolve failures before payroll approval.

Payroll check result

UK statutory pay claim

Statutory pay assessment

Statutory pay workbench

Eligibility, independent approval, scheduled payroll inclusion and HMRC recovery.

Cases and payment schedules

Employer recoveries

Statutory pay lifecycle decision

Prepare statutory payment recovery

Statutory recovery decision

Governed payroll setup

Configure legal payroll entities, calendars, periods, payment accounts, remittance payees, GL mappings and versioned pay elements through independent review.

New payroll setup record

Only the documented fields for the selected setup area are accepted. Bank values must be protected references, never plain account credentials.

Progress payroll setup

Advanced payroll operations

Control regular and exceptional runs, retroactivity, payroll exceptions, multidimensional costing, provider exchanges, close evidence and resilience proof from one operating view.

New advanced payroll control

The service accepts only documented fields and enforces tenant scope, state transitions, independent approval, replay prevention and control totals.

Progress advanced payroll control

Provider or close evidence (only when applicable)

Payroll portfolio and global operations

Operate segregated bureau clients, deadlines, bulk runs, controlled migrations, global consolidation, mobility payroll and collective agreements from one governed portfolio.

New payroll portfolio control

Only documented fields are accepted. Source data, documents and sensitive evidence remain referenced in controlled storage.

Progress payroll portfolio control

Bulk-run outcome (when completing, partially completing or failing)

Stage payroll migration rows

Rows are mapped using the project version, hashed and retained immutably. Corrections identify the invalid source row rather than overwriting it.

Ingest local-provider payroll result

The local statutory pack remains authoritative. DeskBridge validates totals, retains its reference and hash, and consolidates through the run's controlled exchange-rate set.

Execute approved bureau run

Execution is refused if the selected active clients do not match the independently approved expected-client control.

Country assurance and market claims

Control authoritative sources, legislative change, statutory scenarios, privacy, fraud investigation, localisation and every externally stated HR or payroll capability against the exact country-pack version.

New country assurance record

Published claims must resolve to implementation, verified demonstration evidence, exact pack version, acceptance state and an explicit limitation.

Progress country assurance

Independent anomaly investigation, when applicable

Record purpose-bound sensitive read

The read is denied unless the active exact-pack privacy profile explicitly permits this field family for the stated purpose. Allowed and denied decisions are retained immutably.

Payroll finance and close

Prepare balanced journals, publish approved proposals to Ledger, reconcile exact receipts and close payroll only with a complete evidence pack.

Prepare journal
Prepare close pack

Progress payroll finance control

New company payroll

Every active employee in the period is included automatically. Demonstration is the safe default and can never progress into review, posting, payment files, wage-paid status or statutory transmission.

Company payroll

Resolve payroll exception

Prepare UK RTI submission

Preparation is deterministic and audited. Transmission remains unavailable until authorised HMRC provider credentials are configured.

Generate PAYE output

P11D(b) is employer-level and does not require an employee. Benefits are reconciled from governed benefit records during final review.

Correct and reissue payslip

The replacement values come from the selected approved payroll calculation. The original payslip remains in the audit history as superseded.

Move company payroll

UK PAYE profiles

Effective-dated tax codes, starter history and director National Insurance methods require independent activation before payroll can use them.

New UK PAYE profile

Progress PAYE profile

Payroll liabilities and reconciliation

Effective-dated policies

Calculation lineage

Provider and authority reconciliation

New UK payroll liability policy

Connected companies must allocate the shared allowance before independent activation.

Progress liability policy

Prepare payroll liability reconciliation

Progress liability reconciliation

Import governed payroll rules

Imported rules must pass validation, review and independent activation. Statutory filing remains separately controlled by external acceptance and provider authority.

Payroll rule governance

Move payroll rule version

Move record

Stage migration package

Choose a source file to preview its fields and rows.

Review migration rows

Review mapped values, correct invalid rows and resolve duplicates before maker/reviewer approval and posting.

Correct migration row

Resolve duplicate

Authorise migration rollback

New self-service request

Tax, statutory identity and contractual pay changes must be handled by authorised HR or payroll users.

Mobile and offline access

Registered devices require encrypted local storage and independent activation. Offline changes remain replay-safe and conflicts require explicit review.

Notifications

Register mobile device

Review team request

Calculate UAE end-of-service settlement

Gratuity is calculated from service, basic wage and recognised service breaks. Savings Scheme settlements use the governed provider statement and are reconciled after payment.

Govern end-of-service settlement

Register UAE pension membership

Registration creates a pending membership. A different authorised reviewer must activate it before contributions can be calculated.

UAE pension action

Calculate UAE pension contribution

Employee, employer and government shares are selected from the membership’s approved effective-dated statutory rule. Operators cannot enter statutory rates.

Review controlled payroll item

RTI acknowledged totals

Actions remain constrained by the item’s current state and maker/reviewer controls. Invalid or repeated actions are rejected.

Document preview and comparison

Select a queue item to load its governed preview.

Change history and audit references

Discrepancy correction workspace

Corrections are version controlled and require a different authorised reviewer for approval and application.

Govern discrepancy

Govern employee Directory roles

HR is authoritative for staff role changes. Requests require independent review before Core is updated through the controlled outbox.

Requested roles

Role-change decision

Request sensitive information access

New privacy workflow

Privacy workflow action

Privacy case workbench

Immutable case history

Privacy case task

Execute privacy Vault action

New employee compliance requirement

Progress compliance record

Record employee consent

Record contact preference

New cross-border transfer

Request medical-record access

Progress governed record

Purpose-limited medical records

New field-security policy

New access certification

Request emergency access

New segregation-of-duties rule

Assess segregation of duties

Security control decision

Certify access item

Link governed Vault evidence

Govern Vault evidence

National Minimum Wage compliance

Profiles classify work correctly. Every included UK payroll line is assessed against the effective statutory rate, salary sacrifice, work-related deductions and accommodation offset.

New minimum-wage profile

Progress minimum-wage profile

Minimum-wage remediation

Record the payment adjustment on the payroll line before independently approving this remediation.

Benefits in kind

Govern HMRC payrolling elections, benefit valuations, P11D treatment and employer Class 1A liability.

Reporting elections

Employee benefits

HMRC benefit-payrolling election

Benefit types registered for payrolling

Living accommodation and beneficial loans remain P11D-only and cannot be selected.

Progress reporting election

New employee benefit

Progress benefit

Earnings and deductions

Govern recurring and one-off pay components, balances, limits and payroll treatment.

New earning or deduction

Progress earning or deduction

Employee loans

Govern consent, funding terms, repayments, balances, beneficial-loan reporting and write-offs.

New employee loan

Progress employee loan

Expenses and Claim reconciliation

Govern receipt evidence, tax treatment, approval, reimbursement and Claim-to-People integrity.

New expense claim

Progress expense claim

Reconcile DeskBridge Claim

Progress Claim reconciliation

Rotas, working time and timesheets

Govern effective-dated working-time rules, rota assignments, rest compliance, overtime, TOIL and controlled staging to payroll, projects and production.

New working-time policy

New rota pattern

Assign employee rota

Build governed employee timesheet

Progress time control

Stage approved timesheet

This creates immutable, hashed payroll and allocation outputs. It does not post payroll or project costs.

Attendance and scheduling operation

Work location and optional geofence

Progress attendance control

Governed global payroll

Calculate from active effective-dated country packs, prepare consolidations and control statutory updates. Operators cannot enter calculated statutory totals.

New governed calculation
Consolidate approved simulations
Propose statutory rule update

Global workforce payments

Control provider rails, funding, FX conversion, independent approvals, delivery, settlement and recovery.

Payment provider
Funding batch
Payment instruction

Governed workforce analytics

Define permission-aware measures, obtain independent activation and retain immutable, reproducible report runs.

Report definitions

Generated reports

Aggregate engagement surveys

Responses use a 1-5 scale only. Individual responses are never displayed; results remain withheld unless the minimum cohort is met.

New workforce report
New engagement survey

Provider and finance integrations

Install supported connectors, govern mappings and reconcile replay-safe batches. Credentials remain in the controlled secret store.

Connector installation
Object mapping
Integration batch

Governed workforce AI

Use privacy-minimised features, versioned models, explainable results and mandatory human decisions. AI output never changes employee or payroll records directly.

Model registry

Decision-support cases

Register governed model
New decision-support case

HR service delivery

Govern employee and manager enquiries through controlled intake, service targets, knowledge, escalation, communication and independently evidenced resolution.

New HR service request

New HR service target

New HR knowledge article

Progress HR service case

Progress HR service control

Record case communication