# Deel — HRIS API: gotchas

> Canonical URL: https://developers.apideck.com/apis/hris/deel/gotchas

## GET /hris/employees

The `emails[].type` value `primary` follows the worker's own Deel account (login) email, which may be
either their work or their personal address and therefore varies from worker to worker. Deel does not
document how the flag is chosen, so treat this as observed behaviour.

To avoid depending on which address happens to be primary, the primary address is also returned a second
time under its real type. A worker whose account email is their work address returns both
`{"type": "primary"}` and `{"type": "work"}` for it, so reading the `work` entry gives the work address
regardless of the primary flag. Because Deel can list the same address more than once, one address may
appear in several entries with different types.

Deel `home` addresses are returned as `personal`.

Use `?raw=true` to see Deel's original `type` and `primary` flags.

## GET /hris/employees/{id}

The `emails[].type` value `primary` follows the worker's own Deel account (login) email, which may be
either their work or their personal address and therefore varies from worker to worker. Deel does not
document how the flag is chosen, so treat this as observed behaviour.

To avoid depending on which address happens to be primary, the primary address is also returned a second
time under its real type. A worker whose account email is their work address returns both
`{"type": "primary"}` and `{"type": "work"}` for it, so reading the `work` entry gives the work address
regardless of the primary flag. Because Deel can list the same address more than once, one address may
appear in several entries with different types.

Deel `home` addresses are returned as `personal`.

Use `?raw=true` to see Deel's original `type` and `primary` flags.


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