Importing information of just one column from another table

i wanna fill out a column named employee_id from another table by using select below is my query

INSERT INTO information (employee_id)
VALUES (SELECT employee_id FROM employee)

with the above query I am getting an error :

MySQL said: Documentation

#1064 – You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use
near ‘SELECT employee_id FROM employee)’ at line 3**

>Solution :

try like this:

INSERT INTO information (employee_id)
SELECT employee_id FROM employee;