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Personal Preferences

Personal Preferences in Zoho People

The Profile Settings page in Zoho People allows employees to personalize their profile, manage privacy preferences, configure regional settings, and control feed notifications. These settings help users access their basic information and to decide what information is visible to others in the organization.


To access Personal Preferences, navigate to Home > More icon (Ellipses icon on the top right corner) > Personal Preferences.

Profile Picture

At the top of the page, the employee’s profile photo, employee ID, name, and designation are displayed along with the current cover image. The General tab provides access to personal profile settings.

Change Profile Picture

Click on the Profile Picture to change or crop your profile photo. Maximum allow file size is 2 MB.


- Profile Picture Change Permission and Approvals

By default, employees will be allowed to update their profile picture. However, this can be configured by navigating to Settings > Organization Setup > Organization Policy and scrolling down to the "Profile picture update" section. If you select "Administrator". Employees will no longer be able to update their profile picture. 
Additionally, approval can be mandated for employee profile picture changes. 

Change Cover Image

The Change Cover Image section allows users to customize the banner displayed at the top of their profile.
Users can choose from two options:

1. Select a Default Image
A set of predefined cover images is available.
  1. Click any image from the list to apply it instantly to your profile.
2. Upload a Custom Image
If you prefer a personalized cover image:
  1. Click Upload from Desktop.
  2. Select an image file from your computer.
  3. Upload the image.
Cover image can be upto 5 MB in size.

To set up cover image permissions and preferences, navigate to Settings > Organization Setup > Organization Policy and scroll down to the "Cover image preferences" section.
Administrators cannot edit an employee’s cover image in the My Space tab, and employees do not have access to modify the cover image in the Organization tab. If both options (seen in screenshot) are disabled, then the same image used as the Organization cover image, will be used for all employees too.


Locale Settings

The Locale Settings section lets users configure language and regional preferences for their account.

Language - Select the language used to display the interface.
CountryChoose your country. This may affect formats such as dates, numbers, and localization within the system.
Time Zone - Select the time zone applicable to your location.

Permissions (Privacy Controls)

The Permissions section allows users to control which personal information is visible to others within the organization dashboard.
Users can toggle the following options:

Hide my birthday - When enabled, your birthday will not be visible to other employees in the organization.
Hide my wedding anniversary - When enabled, your wedding anniversary will be hidden from others.
Hide my work anniversary - When enabled, your joining anniversary will not appear in organizational feeds or employee views.
Hide mobile number - When enabled, your mobile number will not be visible to other users in the system.

The options available here also depend on the organization's preferences configured in Settings > Organization Setup > Organization Policy > Employee personal preferences section:

These controls help users maintain privacy over personal information shared within the workplace.

Feeds Notification

The Feeds Notification section controls alerts related to activity in the Feeds module.
Users can enable or disable notifications for the following:

Notify when someone mentions me in a post/comment - Receive notifications when another user mentions you in a feed post or comment.
Notify when someone posts a message to the department - Receive alerts when a new message is posted in your department feed.
Notify when someone posts a message to the group - Receive notifications when messages are posted in groups you are part of.

These notifications help employees stay informed about conversations and updates relevant to them.

Click the links below to navigate to:
Organization Policy - Help Document
Delegations - Help Document
Employee Information Operations - Help Document