💡 Still using the classic Drata experience? Refer to Future Hire Personnel for the original UI.
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
This ensures upcoming hires don’t negatively impact compliance before they officially begin employment.
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 mins 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.
This prevents Drata from overwriting intentional manual changes.
IdP-first scenario (common edge case)
If a person is added to your IdP before they exist in your HRIS:
They may appear in Drata without a start date.
You can manually set a future start date.
Once HRIS data is available, reset the HRIS sync to pull the official date.
View Future Hire personnel
You can quickly identify all future hires in your workspace.
Go to Personnel
Select Future Hire for Employment status