👥People Tab - Connecting People to Tab to Enterprise Directory

📍 Today:

The People Tab appears to operate as a standalone experience rather than a connected enterprise directory.

For large organizations, employee profile data already lives in systems like Workday, and admins should not have to recreate or manually maintain that same data in another platform just to make the People experience usable.

The current limitation creates a few predictable problems:

Admins have to manage duplicate records or incomplete people data.
End users may see outdated reporting lines, job titles, departments, or profile details.
HR and IT stakeholders have no reliable way to ensure directory data in PuzzleApp stays aligned with the system of record.
Adoption becomes harder because the People Tab feels disconnected from how enterprise employee data is actually managed.

✨ Desired:

Allow the People Tab to connect to an enterprise directory or HRIS so employee data can be sourced from a system of record such as Workday.

At a minimum, admins should be able to:

Connect PuzzleApp to an enterprise directory / HRIS source.
Map standard employee attributes such as name, title, department, manager, location, and employment status.
Control which fields sync into the People Tab.
Define sync behavior such as scheduled refreshes and handling for new hires, transfers, and terminations.
Preserve a clean end-user experience where people data feels native inside PuzzleApp even though it is system-connected behind the scenes.

📊 Business Justification:

This matters because employee profile data is foundational infrastructure in enterprise environments.

Without this capability, enterprise customers face:

Higher admin overhead from duplicate data entry and manual cleanup.
Data quality risk when employee information changes frequently across large populations.
Poor end-user trust if people data in the People Tab is stale or inconsistent.
Slower rollout and change management because HR, IT, and platform owners are less likely to support a disconnected profile model.
Scalability limits for global organizations with frequent organizational changes, internal mobility, and compliance requirements around worker data accuracy.

For large customers, this is not just a convenience feature. It directly affects whether the People Tab can be deployed as a credible enterprise experience.

✅ Acceptance Criteria

Admins can connect the People Tab to at least one enterprise system of record.
Admins can map standard employee fields to PuzzleApp profile fields.
New hires, manager changes, title changes, department changes, and terminations can be reflected through sync rather than manual rework.
Admins can choose which attributes are synced and which remain editable in PuzzleApp.
Sync failures or field mapping issues are visible to admins through clear error handling.
End users see accurate, current people data in the People Tab without requiring separate profile maintenance.