The day someone leaves is busy. There's a handover, a leaving card and maybe a last coffee. Removing their access is the job that gets forgotten.
In a business running on separate apps, offboarding means remembering every place they could sign in: the till, the rota app, the invoicing tool, the shared drive. Miss one and a former employee can still see customer details, or take payments.
In Worktree it's one switch
Open the employee and set their status to Inactive. That's it.
From their very next click, they're signed out everywhere in Worktree:
- every module, from People to Finance
- the till
- the AI assistant
There's no waiting for a session to time out, and they can't stay signed in on a browser they forgot to close. Worktree checks the status on every request, so the change takes effect immediately.
If they try to sign in, they see a page telling them their account is inactive. Their data doesn't go anywhere: their records, leave history and the sales they rang up all stay, just as your files need them.
Only admins can do it
Status, roles and module permissions are admin-only. If someone who isn't an admin edits an employee, those fields are read-only, and the server ignores any attempt to change them anyway.
Worktree also stops you locking yourself out. You can't deactivate yourself, and you can't deactivate the last admin who can sign in.
Coming back is just as easy
Seasonal staff come back. Someone returns from a career break. Set them back to Active and they can sign in again with their history intact.
Why this matters for a small business
Larger companies have IT teams and single sign-on to handle this. Most small businesses have a list of apps and a good memory. Running the team, the till and the money in one place means there's only one door to close.
Read more about how Worktree handles security, or see the People module.
