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Understanding Tenure Calculation in Bob

  • Feb 11, 2026 1:52 PM UTC
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Bob tracks how long an employee has been with your organization by calculating tenure based on the days they’ve had an active employment status. This helps you quickly understand both their current and total time with the company.

 

Bob provides two different tenure fields, each showing something slightly different:

Accumulated tenure (years) reflects the employee’s total time with the organization, including any previous employment periods if they were rehired.

Tenure (years) shows only the employee’s current, uninterrupted employment period.

Bob calculates these values by counting the number of days the employee has been active and converting that number into years. For example, an employee active for 143 days will show a tenure of 0.39 years ((1 ÷ 365) × 143 = 0.391780818).

 

If a tenure value doesn’t look right, double-check the employee’s lifecycle history to see whether breaks in employment or past rehire dates may have paused the calculation for a period of time.

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  • May 27, 2026 11:06 PM UTC

Hi ​@Rúben do you have a recommendation on how to calculate Permanent employment tenure, now that we have calculated fields? Everything we try does not work.

We need to track tenure based on Permanent employment, so the date field we are looking at would be Employment effective date if employment type = permanent.

Thanks!

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Clarissa Baldwin

Hi, we have some cases where accumulated tenure is less than tenure (where the employee has no rehire history). It looks like accumulated tenure calculated from start dates to last days of work, and tenure calculates from most recent start date to termination date. Does anyone know if that’s correct please? Or should accumulated tenure be the same as tenure if there’s no rehire history to consider?

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