diff --git a/Xero.php b/Xero.php
index 796be74..86da2e8 100644
--- a/Xero.php
+++ b/Xero.php
@@ -49,4 +49,16 @@ class Xero {
         $user = $this->xero->loadByGUID("Accounting\\Contact",$id);
         return $user;
     }
+    
+    public function getEmployees(){
+        $employees = $this->xero->load("PayrollAU\\Employee")
+        ->where('EmployeeGroupName="Web-Employee"')
+        ->execute();
+        return $employees;
+    }
+    
+    public function getEmployee($id){
+        $employee = $this->xero->loadByGUID("PayrollAU\\Employee",$id);
+        return $employee;
+    }
 }
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diff --git a/ts.php b/ts.php
index 2ca7ea6..8c7c768 100644
--- a/ts.php
+++ b/ts.php
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ class AcareOffice{
     private $acaresydney_userid = 0;
     private $clientgroup="48646f3d-cf5e-4fea-8c8b-5812bd540e1b";
     private $xero ; 
+    private $cli = false;
     
     public function __construct() {
         add_action('init', array($this, 'class_loader'));
@@ -91,9 +92,17 @@ class AcareOffice{
         wp_enqueue_script( 'bts_ts', plugins_url('js/bts_timesheet.js', __FILE__), array( 'jquery' , 'bts' ));
     }
     
+    public function sync_user_cli($args = array(), $assoc_args = array()){
+        $this->cli = true;
+        echo "running sync user from command line;";
+        $this->sync_users();
+        return;
+    }
+    
     //sync users to wordpress system
     public function sync_users(){
-        $this->sync_clients();
+        set_time_limit(600); // executing time longer than expected 10 minutes
+        //$this->sync_clients();
         $this->sync_employees();
     }
     private  function sync_clients(){
@@ -104,7 +113,13 @@ class AcareOffice{
     }
     
     private function sync_employees(){
-        
+        $employees = $this->xero->getEmployees();
+        foreach ( $employees as $e){
+            if ($this->cli){
+                echo "sync " . $e->getFirstName()  ."\n";
+            }
+            $this->ensure_staff_exists($e);
+        }
     }
     
     private function ensure_contact_exists($contact){
@@ -134,6 +149,42 @@ class AcareOffice{
         ];
         return $args;
     }
+    
+    
+    private function ensure_staff_exists($employee)
+    {
+        $login = $employee->getEmployeeID();
+        $user = get_user_by('login', $login);
+        if ($user === false){
+            $xero_employee = $this->xero->getEmployee($login);
+            $args = $this->xero_employee_profile($xero_employee);
+            wp_insert_user($args);
+        }else{
+            return;
+            $args['ID'] = $user->ID;
+            unset($args['user_pass']);
+            wp_update_user($args);
+        }
+    }
+    
+    private function xero_employee_profile($e){
+        $args = [
+            'user_login' => $username = $e->getEmployeeID(),
+            'user_pass' => md5(uniqid(rand() + time(), true)),
+            'display_name' =>$e->getFirstName() . " " . $e->getLastName(),
+            'user_email' => $e->getEmail(),
+            'first_name' => $e->getFirstName(),
+            'last_name' => $e->getLastName(),
+            'nickname' => $e->getFirstName(),
+            'role' => 'staff',
+        ];
+        return $args;
+    }
+    
 }
 
-new AcareOffice();
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+$bb = new AcareOffice();
+
+if ( defined( 'WP_CLI' ) && WP_CLI ) {
+    \WP_CLI::add_command( 'sync_users', array($bb, 'sync_user_cli'));
+}