Reading the org chart
One org, four drawings, four lenses. Pick the combination that answers your question.
Four ways to draw it
- Chart is the classic boxes-and-lines view. Pan, zoom, expand and collapse branches. This is also where admins edit.
- Quilt, Icicle, and Sunburst are whole-org views that show hierarchy by containment instead of lines, so the entire company fits on one screen no matter the headcount. Read-only, built for “see everyone at once.”
Four lenses
The layer switcher redraws the same people through a different pivot: Reporting (who reports to whom), Department, Location, and Projects, which groups people by the teams they're on, so someone on two teams appears in both groups. The interactive Chart drawing applies to the Reporting lens; the other lenses use the whole-org views.
Searching the canvas
The chart has its own search: matches stay lit with a ring while everyone else dims, so you can spot a person (or light up a whole department by searching its name) without losing the shape of the org around them. Click any person to open their profile.
Admins: In the Chart drawing you can edit directly: drag someone under a new manager, or fix a name or title in place. Changes save to the directory automatically and everyone sees them. If a save fails, the chart reloads the server's version and says so. You'll never silently diverge.