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title: "Employees"
canonical: "https://support.out-smart.com/space/TIB/418414638/Employees"
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In order to use OutSmart properly, you need to create employees. You want to be able to assign the work orders to colleagues, so that they can carry out the assignment. Not only <span style="color: #ff991f">the employees who receive the work orders on the app</span> must be created, but also <span style="color: #ff991f">the employees who use the backoffice, i.e. the office staff</span>, must receive login details from OutSmart. 

Every employee who is activated in OutSmart can log in to both the app and the backoffice and this can be done at the same time. But if you log in to the backoffice and then log into the backoffice on another computer with the same data, you will be logged out on the first computer. 

In this chapter we discuss how to distinguish between what a mechanic or a planner can do in the backoffice, via [Roles & Permissions](https://out-smart.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TIB/pages/418644008). And then we go through how to [add an employee](https://out-smart.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TIB/pages/418512956).