Documents I've signed
When your employer asks you to sign something in WorkBOS, the document opens as a page you read, agree to sign electronically, and then sign by typing or drawing your name. Everything you sign is kept, and you can find it again yourself under "Documents I’ve signed" in the sidebar. You never have to ask anybody for a copy.
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Read it to the end
The page will not let you sign until you have reached the bottom. That is not us being awkward: a record that says you were shown something is worth a great deal more than one that says you clicked.
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Agree to sign electronically
This is a separate tick box from agreeing to the document itself, and it is deliberate. Agreeing to something and agreeing to sign it electronically are two different things in law, and signatures have been thrown out in court because the second one was never asked for.
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Type or draw your name
Either counts. Typing is the default because it works for everyone, including people using a screen reader, and it is exactly as binding: the law does not care what the mark looks like. Drawing is there because many people prefer it.
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Keep the reference
Signing gives you a reference number. It appears on your certificate and is the quickest way to point at one particular signature later.
Every signature has a Certificate of Completion you can open or print. It shows the reference, who signed, when the document was shown to you, when you read it, when you agreed to sign electronically, and when you signed, along with a fingerprint of the exact wording. If anybody ever edits a stored agreement, that fingerprint and the chain of signatures after it stop matching, which is how tampering shows up.
What is kept and why. The words you actually saw are copied into your signature rather than pointed at, so changing the document later cannot change what you agreed to. Where you signed from is kept as a scrambled fingerprint, not an address: enough to show two signatures came from different places, not enough to be a record of your movements.