---
title: Exploring Lifecycle Events
description: Lifecycle Events enables you to automate the fulfillment of HR cases such as new hire onboarding.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/lifecycle-events/exploring-lifecycle-events.html
release: australia
product: Lifecycle Events
classification: lifecycle-events
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Lifecycle Events, Employee Journey Management, HR Service Delivery, Employee Service Management]
---

# Exploring Lifecycle Events

Lifecycle Events enables you to automate the fulfillment of HR cases such as new hire onboarding.

## Lifecycle Events overview

The Lifecycle Events app helps to facilitate daily activities among various cross-functional processes and departments. It makes completing processes that relate to an employees daily life more efficient and easier.

## Lifecycle Events benefits

<table id="table_ync_qlz_zcc"><thead><tr><th>

Benefit

</th><th>

Feature

</th><th>

Users

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Lifecycle events

</td><td>

Build a lifecycle event and its associated activity sets and activities with the lifecycle event builder.

</td><td>

sn\_hr\_le.admin or sn\_hr\_le.activity\_set\_manager

</td></tr><tr><td>

Lifecycle event test tool to thoroughly test a lifecycle event before launching it.

</td><td>

Acquire different views of a lifecycle event.

</td><td>

sn\_hr\_le.admin or sn\_hr\_le.activity\_set\_manager

</td></tr><tr><td>

Lifecycle Events employee requests

</td><td>

Enables managers and employees to open employee requests directly from Lifecycle Events.

</td><td>

sn\_hr\_le.admin or admin

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## What to explore next

To learn more about configuring and using Lifecycle Events, see:

-   [Configuring Lifecycle Events](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/lifecycle-events/configuring-lifecycle-events.md)
-   [Using Lifecycle Events](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/lifecycle-events/using-lifecycle-events.md)
-   [Lifecycle Events reference](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/lifecycle-events/lifecycle-events-reference.md)