Employees and agency-hired personnel
Most organisations that use Markular run a mixed workforce. Some of the people on your books are your own employees. Others are hired through an agency or brought in on a contract for a project or a rotation. Markular keeps both kinds of people in the same directory and treats them the same way day to day, but it records how each one is engaged so you can tell them apart when it matters.
The contract type
Every person has a contract type that says how they are engaged, whether they are a direct employee or hired in through an agency. This is the field that separates your own people from contracted crew. You set it as the person's Employee Contract when you add them, and you can change it later from their profile.
The exact contract types are defined per organisation, so what you see depends on how your Markular is set up. Common examples are:
| Contract type | Who it covers |
|---|---|
| Offshore, Onshore | People employed directly by your organisation. |
| Agency | Crew hired through an agency or on a contract, not on your own payroll. |
Your organisation may use more contract types than these, such as temporary or trainee, or name them differently, to match how it actually staffs its work.
Why it matters
The contract type is not just a label. It changes what the rest of Markular can do for you.
- Filtering. In the directory you can narrow the list by Contract Type, so you can look at just your own employees, or just hired crew, without the other group in the way. See Find and filter personnel.
- Reporting. Reports can group and count people by contract type, so headcount, cost, and coverage figures separate your own workforce from hired-in crew. See Personnel report.
- Consistency across the platform. Because the contract type lives on the person, every part of Markular that lists or reports on people can respect it, rather than each area guessing.
Contract type is separate from position and status
A person's contract type answers "how is this person engaged with us". It is separate from two other things you also record:
- Their position is the role they hold in the organisation and what they are expected to be qualified for. See How positions and the org structure work.
- Their status describes their current standing, for example whether they are active or inactive.
A direct employee and an agency-hired person can hold the very same position. The contract type is what still tells them apart.