The PeopleXD Assistant lets you ask about your holiday, pay, expenses, shifts, details and outstanding tasks in plain English, and get an answer straight away, without navigating to the right screen in PeopleXD. If you manage people, you can also ask about your team's holiday balances, absences and shifts. You can search your company's policies and handbooks, and combine that with your own data in a single question.

Just ask. There is no command syntax and no menu to learn.

You can ask follow-up questions, and the assistant remembers the conversation. For example, ask "What shifts am I on next week?", then follow up with "And the week after?".

Ask "How much holiday do I have left?", "What's my annual leave balance?" or "Do I have any days left to take this year?". You will get your entitlement, what you have taken, what you have already booked, and what remains.

Ask "What leave have I booked?", "Have I got anything booked next month?" or "Did I book the fourteenth off?". This shows what you have submitted, including anything still awaiting a decision, and anything that was turned down.

Ask "Was my leave approved?", "Who's got my holiday request?" or "Why hasn't my leave been actioned yet?". This is a different question from what you have booked, and it has its own answer. It tells you where your request has reached and who it is currently sitting with.

Ask "When am I next off?" or "How long until my holiday?". You will get your next booked leave and how far away it is.

Ask "When was I off sick this year?" or "How many days have I taken off since January?". This shows your actual absence records, including sickness — what really happened, as opposed to what you requested.

Ask "Is anyone off next Friday?" or "Who else is out that week?". Useful before you book something yourself. This shows your colleagues' leave so you can see whether a day is already thin on cover.

Ask "What shifts am I on next week?", "Am I working the bank holiday?" or "What time do I start on Thursday?". This is your roster — what you are scheduled to work, not what you actually worked. Rest days are shown as rest days, so a non-working day will not be mistaken for an absence.

Ask "Show me my recent payslips" or "What was my net pay last month?". You will get your recent payslips with the headline figures: gross pay, net pay, total deductions, how you were paid and when.

Ask "Why is my pay different this month?" or "Why am I taking home less than usual?". This is one of the most useful questions you can ask. The assistant looks at the full breakdown of your payslip, checks your tax code and tax basis first — by far the commonest reason for an unexpected change — and compares the detail against another period.

Ask "Was my overtime paid?", "How many hours was I paid for last month?" or "How much overtime have I had this year?". This gives you the individual lines that make up your pay, each element with its rate, the hours paid, the value for that period and the total so far this year. If you hold more than one post, each line tells you which one it belongs to.

Ask "What is this deduction on my payslip?", "How much is left on my loan?" or "What's my pension contribution?". You will get each deduction with its value for the period, the total for the year so far, and where relevant how much is still outstanding. If a deduction is currently on hold, you will be told.

Ask "Where's my expense claim?", "Has my claim been paid yet?" or "Why was my claim rejected?". You will get each of your claims, where it has reached, its total, who it is waiting on, and the reason if it was turned down. If a claim cannot be submitted, the assistant will explain why.

Ask something like "I claimed for a hotel last month and haven't been paid".

Ask "What's on my expense claim?" or "Did my mileage go on there?". You will get the individual items: date, description, type, quantity, value and VAT.

Ask "What can I claim for?", "Do I need a receipt for mileage?" or "Can I claim for parking?". This is tailored to you — what you personally are entitled to claim, and the rules for each: whether a receipt is required, whether you need to enter distances or times, and the VAT treatment. Where your organisation has written its own guidance on what is and is not allowed, you will get that too.

Ask "Who is my manager?", "What's my job title?", "When did I start?", "What's my employee number?", "What address do you have for me?" or "What bank account is my pay going into?". Your profile covers your job title, department, location, contact details, personnel number, start date and who you report to.

Ask "What do I still need to do?" or "Have I finished my onboarding?". You will get your outstanding items: forms to fill in, policies to acknowledge, pages to read. This lists what is still outstanding, so it cannot show you what you have already completed. If nothing comes back, you are up to date.

Ask "Who reports to me?", "Who else is in my team?" or "Is Sarah one of my reports?". These are two separate lists: the people who report directly to you, and your colleagues in the same team. They do not overlap — your team list excludes your own reports.

You can ask about your direct reports' holiday balances, absences and shifts. For example, "How much holiday does Tom have left?", "When was Priya off sick this year?" or "Is Tom rostered on Saturday?".

You can also check cover across your team — for example, "How many of my team are off on Thursday?" or "How thin is cover next week?". This gives you a day-by-day count.

Holiday balances, absences and shifts are the only things you can look up for someone else. You cannot see a report's:

This is deliberate. If you need any of these, use the normal manager views and approval routes in PeopleXD.

You can also only ask about your own direct reports, not someone else's team, and not the wider organisation.

Ask "What's the holiday carry-over policy?", "What does the handbook say about sick pay?" or "How much notice do I need to give?". The assistant can search your company's uploaded documents, policies, handbooks and other published material.

This is what the assistant is genuinely good at. Instead of checking four screens, ask one question.

No. The assistant reads information only. It will tell you whether Friday looks feasible, but you book it in PeopleXD.

Balances, absences and shifts are the three things a manager can look up, because they are what you need for day-to-day scheduling decisions. Pay and personal details are handled through PeopleXD's normal manager and approval routes.

Almost certainly not. The assistant can only see your own team and direct reports — it has no company-wide directory. Not found here means not among the people it can see.

Some lists can come back in parts. Rather than state a total it cannot be sure of, the assistant will tell you the figure may be incomplete. A confident wrong number is worse than an honest hedge.

The assistant works from your own PeopleXD access. It shows you what you are already permitted to see — it does not grant new access, and it does not share your questions with anyone.

No, and the assistant is designed not to confuse the two. An error means the question could not be answered, not that the answer is zero. Try again, and if it persists, raise it with your HR or IT team.