---
title: "Business Loci"
slug: workspace/loci
url: https://projectri.com/docs/workspace/loci
section: workspace
audience: workspace
app_route: "/[slug]/[user]/loci"
permissions: [project.view, project.plan, team.view, team.manage]
mobile: false
updated: 2026-09-08
source: Projectri documentation
---

# Business Loci

The workspace's branches and the departments under each one — addresses, contact details and which office is headquarters.

![Business Loci](https://projectri.com/docs-shots/workspace-loci.png)

## What it is

Business Loci is where a workspace records the places it operates from. A
**branch** is an office, with an address, a country, a city, a phone number and
an email. Under each branch sit its **departments**. One branch can be marked as
headquarters.

## How to get there

Business Loci is in the main navigation. Reading the branch list needs
`project.view`; reading departments needs `team.view`. Creating, editing and
deleting a branch needs `project.plan`, and doing the same to a department needs
`team.manage` — and in both cases you must also be an **admin** of this
workspace. A member holding the permission key but not the admin role is refused.

## How to use it

### Add a branch

1. Press **New Branch**.
2. Fill in **Branch Name** and optionally a short **Code** — *e.g. HQ, NYC-01*.
3. Add the **Full Address**, then pick a **Country** and a **City**. The city
   list narrows to the country you chose, and the field says *"Pick a country
   first"* until you have.
4. Add a **Phone** and **Email**.
5. Set **Status** to **Active** or **Inactive**, and tick **Mark as HQ** if this
   is the head office.
6. Optionally give the branch its own mark. Left alone, it shows the company's.

### Find and open a branch

1. The left rail lists every active branch, headquarters first and then
   alphabetically.
2. **Search branches…** filters the list.
3. Selecting one shows its details on the right: department and member counts,
   address, city and country, phone and email.

### Manage departments

1. With a branch open, press **Add Department**.
2. Give it a **Department Name**, an optional **Code**, a **Description** and a
   **Head Count**.
3. Departments are listed under the branch and can be edited or deleted from
   there.

### Delete

- **Delete this branch?** warns *"Every department under it goes too. People stay
  in the workspace."*
- **Delete this department?** warns *"Its people stay in the workspace and can be
  filed elsewhere."*
- Both offer an undo afterwards, and both are soft deletes rather than erasures.

## What it affects

- **People are filed against a branch and a department.** Member records carry
  both, so the office and department a person belongs to are set from what exists
  here. Deleting a branch never removes anybody from the workspace.
- **A branch's mark is inherited, not copied.** Leaving the logo empty means
  *show the company's mark*, so rebranding the company updates every branch that
  never set its own. Setting one freezes that branch's mark.
- **The country is stored as a standard country code**, not as whatever the field
  said, so the same value comes back through the API as through the picker.

## On mobile

This screen is web only.

## Limits and gotchas

- **Two branches in one workspace cannot share a name.** A second attempt is
  refused as a duplicate rather than creating a twin, which is also what stops a
  double-click from making two.
- Only **Active** branches are listed. An **Inactive** branch stays on the record
  but drops off this screen's rail.
- Departments are company-level, so the branch card's department count is not
  always populated from the branch list itself.
- A multi-workspace admin can read another of their *own* workspaces here.
  Membership decides that, not the admin role — being an admin of one workspace
  gives no reach into another.

## Related

- [Team](/docs/workspace/team) — the people filed under these branches.
- [Departments](/docs/admin/departments) — the admin view of the same departments.
- [Members](/docs/admin/members) — where a person's branch and department are set.
- [Company](/docs/admin/company) — the company mark that branches inherit.

## Related

- [Team](https://projectri.com/docs/workspace/team.md): The workspace roster, the org chart with reporting lines, and a live activity timeline — with each person's department, branch, job role, workload and skills.
- [Departments](https://projectri.com/docs/admin/departments.md): Company-level master data — the departments teams and members are filed under, shared across every branch.
- [Members](https://projectri.com/docs/admin/members.md): The workspace roster and the pending invite list — invite people, change roles, suspend, remove, and do any of those to many people at once.
- [Company](https://projectri.com/docs/admin/company.md): The workspace name, its mark and its URL slug, with the live subscription underneath — plan, cost, renewal and how much of it is in use.