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You control your team's roster and permissions in Manage & Work > Team Admin. Your roster is who belongs to your team. Permissions control what the user can do.
Only users with admin privileges can access the Team Admin controls. By default, the company owner is the admin.
Permissions control what a user can do within a team. Here's what each of the permissions means:
- Owner
- The user ultimately responsible for the company. A company (and therefore the teams within that company) can have only one owner. Only the owner can create additional team rooms within a company. Company ownership can be transferred, but you'll need to contact Customer Support. The owner is always an admin.
- Admin
- The user can add and remove users from the roster and control everyone's permissions. Admins always have full access to the team's financial account. Admins cannot create additional team rooms within a company.
- Financial
- The user has full access to the team's financial account, but cannot control the roster and permissions.
- Hiring Manager
- The user has full buyer access to post jobs, hire candidates, set weekly limits, change rates and end assignments.
- Recruiter
- The user has limited buyer access to post jobs, set weekly limits and end assignments. They cannot hire or change rates.
- Staffing Manager
- The user has control over affiliated contractors' candidacies and rates.
- Affiliated Contractor
- Exclusive - The user can only work on behalf of the provider company. All their earnings are controlled by the team's financial account. They cannot control their rates.
- Non-Exclusive - The user can work as an affiliated contractor and as an independent contractor. The provider company can only control their affiliated candidacies and assignments. A user can be a non-exclusive affiliated contractor in multiple provider companies.
- Team Room Access
- The user can access the team room with its associated work diaries and reports. The user can log hours to a work diary in this team and access the team's Bugzilla. A user with team room access only (and no assignment) is called a colleague.
You're the owner of a provider company. You need someone else to be able to control affiliated contractors' assignments and handle withdrawing their earnings. Add them to your team and give them staffing manager and financial privileges.
You're the owner of a buyer company. You've got a project manager to handle your job posts and interviews, but want to have final approval over all new hires. Invite them to your team (or hire them if they're an oDesk provider) then give them recruiter privileges.
Unless you have staffing manager privileges, oDesk assumes you're a buyer inviting a colleague to join your team.
- Go to Manage & Work > Team Admin.
- Select the relevant team at the top left (if you're an admin in more than one).
- Click the Invite a new user link at the top right.
- Enter the person's email address or oDesk user ID. You can only invite one person at a time.
- By default, you'll invite the person as a Colleague. You can also give the person additional privileges in the advanced options. If you're not sure, just choose colleague. You can always change their privileges in Team Admin after the user accepts.
- Enter a Message to the user. This will be included in your emailed invitation.
- Press the Invite User button. The user will need to accept your invitation (and register on oDesk, if necessary).
Need someone to work on a job you posted? Don't invite them to join your team - hire them for an assignment.
If you have staffing manager privileges, oDesk assumes you're inviting an affiliated contractor to join your provider company. In step 5 above, you'll need to specify if the affiliated contractor is to be exclusive or non-exclusive. You can also add additional privileges (like making the user a staffing manager) in the advanced options.
You cannot add a user with an active assignment as an exclusive affiliated contractor. Have them end their assignment first or select non-exclusive and change it later in Team Admin.
You cannot add a user with an active assignment as an exclusive affiliated contractor. Have them end their assignment first or select non-exclusive and change it later in Team Admin.
To completely remove a user from your team's roster:
- Go to Manage & Work > Team Admin.
- Select the relevant team at the top left (if you're an admin in more than one).
- Check the Remove from Team box to the right of the correct user. You cannot remove yourself from the team.
- Press the Update Permissions button. If you change you're mind, you'll need to invite the user to join your team again.
Is the person you want to remove on assignment? Don't remove the user in your roster - end the assignment. If the user has additional privileges, remove those first.
You cannot remove an affiliated contractor who has an active assignment.
