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The Employee Portal

The Employee portal is your personal workspace in Aboard. From here, you can find colleagues, manage time off, complete tasks and forms, access documents, follow onboardings and more.

Written by Isak

Note: The options and widgets you see depend on the features your company uses and the information relevant to your role.


The Home page

When you open the Employee portal, you land on Home. The page starts with a personalised greeting and brings together the items most relevant to you.


Quick actions and reminders

Important actions may appear near the top of the page, including:

  • Request time off

  • Review pending time-off requests

  • Complete a certification request

  • Continue an event draft

  • View assigned tasks

  • Complete a performance review

  • Complete missing profile information

  • Ask Co-pilot, if enabled for your company

Select a reminder to go directly to the relevant item.


Home page widgets

Widgets appear automatically based on the features your company has enabled and the information available for you.

Onboarding

If you have an active onboarding, this widget provides a direct link to your onboarding plan, activities and tasks.

Praise

Shows recent praise you have received. Select View praise to read the full message.

Punch clock

Available when time tracking is enabled. Use it to:

  • Clock in to a time-tracking project

  • See the duration of your active session

  • Clock out or cancel a session

  • View your total recorded time for the day

Once the week has been submitted, the widget shows that the week is locked for submission.

Timesheet

Provides an overview of the current week, including:

  • Reported time

  • Time recorded on each day

  • The week’s approval status

  • A link to review or complete the week

Time-off

Shows your current or next approved absence. Select the widget to view your time-off requests and balances.

Vacation plan

If you have been added to an active vacation plan, the widget shows:

  • The name of the plan

  • How many days you have submitted

  • The submission deadline, if applicable

  • An option to submit or review your planned time off

Team onboardings

If you are involved in colleagues’ onboardings, you may see cards for those onboardings. Select a card to open the onboarding and view its progress or your assigned activities.

Upcoming meeting

Shows your next 1-on-1, including the date, time and manager. Select the widget to open the meeting, agenda and related information.

Expenses

Available when expense reporting is enabled. The widget displays your recent expenses and lets you report a new one.

Face Quiz

Face Quiz is a game that helps you learn the faces of your colleagues. It appears when your company has enough active employee profiles.

At least ten colleagues need profile pictures before the quiz can be played.

Aboard mobile app

Use the QR code in this widget to download or open the Aboard mobile app.

AI integrations

Depending on your access, you may see options for:

  • Ask Co-pilot – ask questions using your company’s information in Aboard.

  • MCP – connect Aboard’s company knowledge to supported AI tools.


Tasks, absences and birthdays

Further down the Home page, you may also find tasks, out of office and birthdays indicators:

Tasks

Assigned tasks can be viewed by:

  • Due in 7 days

  • All tasks

Tasks are grouped by the onboarding, meeting or person they relate to. You can complete applicable tasks directly from the list.

Out of office

The out-of-office section gives you an overview of colleagues who are absent or otherwise unavailable during the coming days.

Birthdays

Upcoming birthdays are shown when birthday information is available and your company has chosen to display it in the Employee portal.


The side menu

On a computer, the menu appears on the left side of the portal. On a mobile device, open the main menu to access the same options.

Home

Returns you to your Employee portal dashboard and its widgets, reminders and tasks.

People

Opens your company directory. You can:

  • Search for a colleague

  • Filter by department or workplace

  • View new hires

  • View colleagues you have pinned

  • Open a colleague’s profile

  • Access the organisation chart

Photos

View photos shared within your company, including:

  • Latest uploads

  • Photo albums

  • Top contributors

You can also create an album and upload photos.

Posts

Read company news and published internal posts.

This menu option only appears when your company has published posts.

Events

View company events using the following tabs:

  • Upcoming

  • Past events

  • Drafts

You can open an event to see its details, attendance information and discussion. You can also create a new event.

Praise

Browse praise shared within the company. You can search or filter praise by workplace and department, and select Give praise to recognise a colleague.


Workspace options

Time-off

Manage your personal time off. From here, you can:

  • Submit a new request

  • View existing and pending requests

  • Cancel an eligible request

  • Check your available balances

  • Add the company time-off calendar to your calendar application

  • Open vacation plans you have been added to

Timesheet

Available when time tracking applies to you. Use it to:

  • Record time against projects

  • Review the current week

  • Submit your timesheet

  • See whether a week is pending, approved or rejected

The Timesheet option appears when you have time-tracking projects or previously recorded entries.

Documents

Your documents are divided into two areas:

  • My – personal documents, contracts and certification requests

  • Company – documents shared by your company

Depending on your access, you can also:

  • Upload a file

  • Add a link

  • Download documents

  • Confirm that you have read a document

  • Respond to certification requests

A small indicator may appear when a document requires your attention.

Forms

The Forms area contains items such as:

  • Performance reviews

  • Engagement surveys

  • Peer nominations

  • Other forms assigned to you

Pending items appear under To do. Previously completed forms are grouped by month.

Onboardings

This option appears when you have an active onboarding or are involved in another employee’s onboarding.

You can use the page to:

  • Continue your own onboarding

  • View onboardings you are involved in

  • Complete activities and tasks

  • Search onboardings

  • Filter by status, workplace or department

An active personal onboarding may also be shown separately at the bottom of the side menu for quick access.

1-on-1

This option appears when you have 1-on-1 meetings in Aboard. Meetings are organised into:

  • Upcoming

  • Held

  • Completed

  • Archived

Open a meeting to view its agenda, notes, tasks, goals and summary, where available.


Your profile and account menu

Select your name or profile picture at the bottom of the side menu.

Me

Opens your personal profile overview. Depending on the information available, this can include:

  • Your profile and contact information

  • Profile-completion reminders

  • Department and colleagues

  • Workplace

  • Salary development

  • Employment information

  • Managers and team memberships

When profile information needs to be added or updated, you may be asked to complete sections such as:

  • Personal details

  • Bio

  • Identification

  • Bank details

  • Home address

  • Emergency contacts

Account settings

Manage settings relating to your Aboard account and sign-in.

Notifications

View your Aboard notifications. An indicator on your profile picture shows when unread notifications are available.

Whistleblowing

If your company has enabled whistleblowing, this option opens its whistleblowing channel in a separate page.

Admin portal

Users with administrative access can select Admin portal to open Aboard’s administration area.

Sign out

Signs you out of Aboard.


Why can’t I see an option or widget?

Employee portal content is personalised. An option may not appear because:

  • Your company has not enabled the feature.

  • The feature does not apply to your profile.

  • There is no relevant content yet—for example, no meetings or published posts.

  • You have no active items, such as an onboarding or vacation plan.

  • Your access is determined by your role or company settings.

If you believe something is missing, contact your Aboard administrator.

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