The day-to-day enquiry is the register itself: the Employees list filters by department, branch and status, which answers most questions a manager actually asks — who is in Operations, who reports to whom, whose record still lacks a rate.
The People picture in numbers lives with the governed measures of Chapter 2, and it is deliberately small and honest:
- Headcount — employees with Active status, read department by department. It is a position, taken from the latest daily snapshot, not a flow.
- Joiners — how many hire dates fall in the month being looked at.
- No leavers figure. The business records no leaving dates — a leaver is a status change, undated — so no leavers number is offered. A figure that cannot be computed from what exists will not be estimated into being.
These measures surface on dashboards and in the analyst's answers like every other governed number. They also sit behind a governed People view of their own, so Ask answers people questions directly — "How many employees do we have?", "Who joined this month?", "What is our average tenure?" — and Explore can break headcount down by department and month. The view is department grain: it carries no employee names or numbers, exactly like every other governed surface — names belong on the employee records themselves. The person's own time picture — their hours, their utilization, their projects — is Time Tracking's reporting (Chapter 9).