Configure Departments

This section describes how to set up your organization’s generic departments in Dayforce. Departments contain the jobs employees are scheduled to work and are linked to zones, which receive a portion of a location’s labor budget.

It’s important to configure all of the different departments that can be in your organization’s various locations as Dayforce uses departments and zones to organize schedules, jobs, and labor budgets.

Departments are used in job assignment configuration. See Jobs and Job Assignments Background.

You can also import departments instead of manually adding them. See Org Setup Import and Export Configuration.

To add a department: 

1. Go to Org Setup > Organization and click the Departments tab.
2. Click Add.
3. Enter the department’s name and description.
4. Enter a cross-reference code in the Reference Code field. Reference codes are used to export data to other applications. These codes must be unique and must not contain special characters.
5. Click Save.