Can a team lead see only their own team?
For owners and admins
Yes. Make them a Manager of their departments. They then see, approve and get alerts for those people only.
- 1Open Team → People.
- 2In the Role column, change the person to Manager.
- 3Tick the departments they look after and click Save.

A manager sees those people on Team, Reports, Activity, Work schedule and their screenshots; approves their leave, offline time and shift requests; and gets their alerts and report emails.
Want managers to look at the schedule but not change it? Set Managers to view only in Settings → Permissions. Shift requests then go to admins.
A manager can’t see other departments, open Settings or Plans, invite people or change roles. Their own leave goes to an admin. It’s on every plan.
Still stuck? We’re happy to help.
Ask usMore on your team
- How do I add my team?
- Someone didn’t get the invite, or it expired.
- Why does someone show "No app yet"?
- How do I make departments?
- What can the owner, admins, managers and employees do?
- Someone left. How do I remove them?
- How do I change a name?
- One person works different hours. How do I set them?
- Some people don’t keep set working hours. How do I stop them showing as late or absent?
- What can my manager see? What can I see?
- Can I choose what employees see of each other, or stop managers changing the schedule?
- How do I make someone else the owner?
- Can I, as the owner, keep my own time private?
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