Who sits where, and since when
Who sits in that seat, and since when? Here is one place that says, in a demonstration bank: every seat, who's in it, who was there before, and a change that would put two people in one seat refused before anybody approves it.
Who sits in that seat? And since when?
Usually the answer is in an HR spreadsheet, a branch's own list, and somebody's memory. And when two of them disagree, nobody knows which one is out of date.
Here is one place for it, in a demonstration bank on Parsware. This isn't banking software. It's how any large organisation keeps track of who works where. The screens are the real application, and the people and the data are made up for the demonstration.
You see the people you work with
Leila is a teller at Branch 001. Her list of people has three names on it: her own branch. She sees the units she works in and anything beneath them, and nobody else's staff.
Sara manages the region, so her list has both branches in it.
Every seat, who's in it, and since when
Each seat says who holds it now, and since when. Ahmad has been on the counter at Branch 001 since January 2025.
The empty seats have a list of their own. In the demonstration bank, that's one teller seat, at Branch 002.
Who sat there before
Open the empty seat and look at everyone who has held it. Ahmad did, from 2020 until January 2025. It has been empty since.
He didn't leave. He moved to Branch 001. A move is two lines: the seat he left, and the one he took. Neither is ever written over, and an ended one can't be changed or deleted, so this is the history and not somebody's recollection of it.
One person in a seat, and one seat for a person
Nobody changes who sits where directly. It's asked for and approved first, and that's the story of the overview. But some changes should never reach anybody's desk.
Try to put Leila in Ahmad's seat. It's refused the moment it's sent: a seat holds one person at a time.
What about the empty seat? Leila already has one. One person holds one seat, so it says to ask for a transfer instead.
Neither of those reached an approver. Nobody spends a morning approving a change that could never happen.
What you know now that you didn't
- Who sits in every seat, and since when, without asking HR.
- Which seats are empty, and who sat in them before.
- Every move anybody has made, kept as it happened.
- That nobody can be put in a seat that's taken, or in two seats at once.
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