/departments

GET https://{subdomain}.workable.com/spi/v3/departments

Returns a collection of your account departments. Required scope: r_account. Accessible with all token types.

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This endpoint uses r_account scope which can be enabled through the Integrations section found within the Settings menu. This endpoint is only accessible for accounts that have enabled Employee Management features.

Results

Calling the /departments endpoint will return a collection of the defined departments for the account. An example of the response follows:

JSON

[
    {
        "id": "3ff4d641",
        "name": "Commercial",
        "parent_id": null
    },
    {
        "id": "3ff4d642",
        "name": "Customer Success",
        "parent_id": "3ff4d641"
    },
    {
        "id": "3ff4d643",
        "name": "Support",
        "parent_id": "3ff4d642"
    },
    {
        "id": "3ff4d644",
        "name": "Marketing",
        "parent_id": "3ff4d641"
    },
    {
        "id": "3ff4d645",
        "name": "Content",
        "parent_id": "3ff4d644"
    },
    {
        "id": "3ff4d646",
        "name": "Sales",
        "parent_id": "3ff4d641"
    },
    {
        "id": "3ff4d647",
        "name": "Account Executive",
        "parent_id": "3ff4d646"
    },
    {
        "id": "3ff4d648",
        "name": "Business Development",
        "parent_id": "3ff4d646"
    },
    {
        "id": "3ff4d649",
        "name": "Engineering",
        "parent_id": null
    },
    {
        "id": "3ff4d64a",
        "name": "Finance",
        "parent_id": null
    },
    {
        "id": "3ff4d64b",
        "name": "HR",
        "parent_id": null
    }
]

Each department will have the following keys:

key	type	description
id	string	The department identifier. Note that this id should be used when creating or updating an employee using the POST and PATCH endpoints respectively.
name	string	The name of the department
parent_id	string	The department identifier of the parent department or null if it is a top level department
archived	boolean	Indicates weather the department has been archived or not