The term “direct report” in the workplace refers to either a person or position that reports directly to a particular supervisor, team leader, manager, or executive.
For example, let’s say Letitia is a supervisor in accounting and she has four accountants who report to her position as supervisor of the department (she is their leader on the organizational chart). The next step up the org chart would show that Letitia ‘reports up’ to the Manager of Finance, Perry. That then makes Letitia a direct report to Perry. And if Perry reports to the CFO Guin, that makes Perry’s position a direct report to the CFO position.
This could be used in a sentence as “Letitia is Perry’s direct report” or “the Supervisor of Accounting is a direct report to the Manager of Finance.”
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