diff --git a/timed/employment/tests/test_user.py b/timed/employment/tests/test_user.py
index 6efaf22c..79acce98 100644
--- a/timed/employment/tests/test_user.py
+++ b/timed/employment/tests/test_user.py
@@ -220,3 +220,30 @@ def test_user_attributes(auth_client, project):
     project.reviewers.add(user)
     res = auth_client.get(url)
     assert res.json()["data"]["attributes"]["is-reviewer"]
+
+
+def test_user_me_auth(auth_client):
+    """Should return the auth_client user."""
+    user = auth_client.user
+
+    url = reverse("user-me")
+
+    response = auth_client.get(url)
+    assert response.status_code == status.HTTP_200_OK
+
+    me_data = response.json()["data"]
+    assert me_data["id"] == str(user.id)
+
+    # should be the same as user-detail
+    url = reverse("user-detail", args=[user.id])
+
+    response = auth_client.get(url)
+    assert me_data == response.json()["data"]
+
+
+def test_user_me_anonymous(client):
+    """Non-authenticated client doesn't do anything."""
+    url = reverse("user-me")
+
+    response = client.get(url)
+    assert response.status_code == status.HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED
diff --git a/timed/employment/views.py b/timed/employment/views.py
index 7fd90d02..7c9e5ebc 100644
--- a/timed/employment/views.py
+++ b/timed/employment/views.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
 from django.db.models import CharField, DateField, IntegerField, Q, Value
 from django.db.models.functions import Concat
+from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 from rest_framework import exceptions, status
 from rest_framework.decorators import action
@@ -54,6 +55,14 @@ def get_queryset(self):
             "employments", "supervisees", "supervisors"
         )
 
+    @action(methods=["get"], detail=False)
+    def me(self, request, pk=None):
+        User = get_user_model()
+        self.object = get_object_or_404(User, pk=request.user.id)
+        serializer = self.get_serializer(self.object)
+
+        return Response(serializer.data)
+
     @action(methods=["post"], detail=True)
     def transfer(self, request, pk=None):
         """