Departments can now sit inside other departments. If your org runs a “Finance & Ops” with a “Finance” and an “Ops” underneath it, ShiftControl can finally model that instead of flattening it into three unrelated departments.
Child departments are indented under their parent in the list, and when you create or edit one you pick its parent from a dropdown. The hierarchy is two levels deep, a parent and its children, which is what HR systems actually expose.
- The group behind a child department nests automatically inside its parent’s group, so anyone in Backend is also counted in Engineering without you setting up a single rule.
- Department names sent out to Google Workspace and JumpCloud are composed as
Parent - Child, so “Backend” shows up as “Engineering - Backend” everywhere downstream. Top-level departments are unchanged. - Two departments under different parents can share a name. “Finance → Ops” and “Product → Ops” no longer collide.