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Your users will continue to have the ability to lock/sleep/hibernate/power down their computers of their own free will. Under Sleep, select how long you want your device to wait before going to sleep when you’re not using it. Under Screen, select how long you want your device to wait before turning the screen off when youre not using your device. Linking the GPO to the domain itself will apply that policy to all computer on the domain. To adjust power and sleep settings in Windows 10, go to Start, and select Settings > System > Power & sleep. I have this one tied to my domain, but if you have a clean and tidy Active Directory you can tie GPOs to specific computers based on location or whatever else you decide. The group policy will eventually be applied to all of the computers in the container or organizational unit the Group Policy Object is tied to.

Someone who should NOT have access to payroll information very well may get that access when that user is out to lunch with their computer unlocked.

That is for a reason, and that's why they all have separate accounts. Just think about how different users have access to different information on the file server. It is important to keep in mind security aspects of the computer not locking/sleeping due to inactivity. You can set the hard disk to turn off after inactivity (I like to keep this, I'm newly the first IT guy my company has ever had and all the computers suck from 4 or 5 years of hard drives spinning 24/7 because "shutting off the computer is bad for it."

Under Computer Configuration, Preferences, Control Panel Settings, find Power options. Create a new group policy under the group policy objects container (it is nice to have separate policy for each configuration change).