Hiring a family member, the IT implications
Hiring family feels informal, but IT access is not. Give them their own account with appropriate rights, otherwise a habit forms that is hard to reverse later.
Try this first
- 1Create their own employee account on the company domain, do not 'temporarily' share your own credentials.
- 2Grant rights matching the role, not admin rights by default because they are family, separation of duties applies here too.
- 3Set expectations for the work phone or laptop, and whether they may also use it privately.
- 4Document their role and access in the same HR mapping as other employees, no verbal agreements that get forgotten.
- 5Agree in advance what happens at departure, an angry family departure is a bigger risk than a regular colleague because they know more about the business.
- 6Treat the hire fiscally and legally like any other employment, a contract and correct payroll belong with it.
When to bring us in
If the role involves financial or customer-data access, get extra advice. Vectel can set up the access matrix and HR-IT path the same way as for other employees.
See also
- First IT setup as a freelancer, what do you actually needNot everything at once. One laptop, a mailbox on your own domain, a password manager, a backup. That covers the first year.
- Hiring your first employee, what IT to arrange before day oneLaptop, account, mailbox, access to the right folders. In that order, not all of it at 9 a.m. on day one.
- Moving to a new office, IT checklistInternet and power have the longest lead times. Plan at least three months out, not three weeks.
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