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Customers who joined Drata on or after Feb 24, 2026 are automatically on the New Experience.
Instructions for the New Experience ⬇️
Future Hire status lets you track employees who have a confirmed start date in the future without including them in your current compliance posture.
This is useful when you want visibility into upcoming hires without triggering personnel-related compliance checks before their first day.
What happens when someone is a Future Hire
Future hires are excluded from personnel compliance checks
They are not evaluated by monitoring tests
They are treated the same as Out of Scope personnel until their start date is reached
You cannot directly change employment status to Future Hire
Prerequisites
You must have permission to edit personnel records
If using HRIS or IdP integrations, understand how start dates are sourced
Manually set a Future Hire start date
Go to Governance → Personnel.
Select the person you want to update.
In the Details section, select Edit.
Choose a start date in the future.
Select Submit.
The person's employment status updates automatically to Future Hire. This may take a couple of minutes to be updated.
Update a Future Hire to active employment
To remove Future Hire status:
Change the start date to today or a past date
Then update employment status if needed
You cannot change employment status while the start date is still in the future.
HRIS and IdP sync behavior
HRIS sync
If a future start date exists in your HRIS, Drata will automatically set the person as a Future Hire.
This sync happens during the daily HRIS sync.
Manual overrides and sync impact
If you manually change a start date in Drata, HRIS hire date sync for that person stops.
To restore HRIS control, reset the HRIS sync for that person.
View Future Hire personnel
Go to Personnel
Select Future Hire for Employment status
Instructions for the Classic Experience ⬇️
Managing your personnel audit scope is an important part of maintaining your compliance. As your organization grows, you may want to track personnel in Drata that have a start date in the future without them impacting your compliance.
Before Diving In
If you manually set a future hire date for a personnel in Drata, that will stop the IdP and HRIS sync for that personnel's hire dates. You can reset the sync for that personnel when you want to.
The only way to set a future hire status for an employee is for them to have a future start date in Drata. This can either be done manually or through an HRIS sync.
The only way to update the employment status of a future hire is to first change the start date to the present date or one in the past. You can then manually set the employment status.
Future hires are treated the same as Out of Scope personnel in Drata – they are not evaluated for any of your personnel compliance checks or monitoring tests in Drata.
Manually Set Future Start Date
Select the personnel you want to update. Click on the edit icon in the Hire Date section.
Select a start date in the future and click Submit
The personnel will now be set as a Future Hire employment status.
IdP & HRIS sync
If you set a start date in the future for a personnel in your HRIS, the next day when Drata syncs with your HRIS, that personnel will be set as a future hire employment status with the corresponding start date you set in your HRIS.
If you add personnel to your IdP before they are added to your HRIS, you can manually set that personnel's start date in the future. Once they are added to your HRIS, you can reset the HRIS sync in Drata for that personnel.
Anytime you manually change a start date for a personnel in Drata, the HRIS sync will no longer update hire date information for that personnel on a daily basis. To re-establish this sync, you need to reset the HRIS sync for that personnel in Drata.
View Future Hire Personnel in Drata
On the personnel page, click on the dropdown for Filter by Status. If you scroll to the bottom, you can select Future Hire