Popwork's changelog

Bravos, feedback and feedback requests now live on Popwork: you can send them, receive them and find them later in your workspace.

Send a Bravo 🙌

Open + Create in the workspace header or on the manager home, then Send a Bravo.

• One or several colleagues. Pick the people you want to thank, each one gets their own Bravo.
• With stickers. Write what deserves a shout-out, then drop stickers on the card. Click one to move it, resize it or turn it.
• Seen where it matters. The person receives a notification and can see it in the app. Their manager sees it too.

Share feedback, or ask for it 💬

The same + Create menu lets you share a feedback (congratulations, encouragement or a suggestion) with someone. It stays between you and that person.

Employees can also ask their manager for feedback on a specific question. The manager answers with a feedback, and the question stays displayed alongside the reply.

A Feedbacks tab on your home and in each workspace 📥

• Received or sent. Switch between the two, and filter by type: Bravos, congratulations, encouragement, suggestions.
• To handle. Requests waiting for your answer sit at the top. On the manager home, the tab shows a count of unread feedbacks and requests to answer.
• Bravos as cards. Your Bravos and your team's are shown as cards, the other feedbacks as compact rows.
• In the timeline. In a workspace, feedbacks and pending requests now appear by date among the check-ins, and a check-in with a feedback carries a small tag.

Open a Bravo straight from your e-mail ✉️

The link in the e-mail opens the Bravo on its card, with the latest Bravos received. The person it was sent to can react to it.

Celebrate on the spot 🎉

• A Bravo shortcut now sits under check-in answers.
• When a commitment is marked done, Popwork suggests saying congratulations to the person who kept it.

Admins: three new switches 🔐

On the Permissions & visibility page, a new Feedback group lets you turn off:

• feedbacks shared by managers
• Bravos sent to colleagues (applies to everyone, managers included)
• feedback requests sent by employees to their manager

All three are on by default, so nothing changes for existing accounts. Turning one off stops new ones from being sent; replying to a request that was already sent still works.

Smaller improvements

• Profile pictures show initials while they load, instead of staying blank when an image takes too long to arrive.
• The workspace menu now opens from a cog, and the options of a ritual card from a vertical ellipsis.
• Feedback dates show the year when they are not from the current year.

People Insights has graduated from beta.
It is now called Dashboard, it is open to every company account, and it is the first thing admins see when they open Popwork. No request, nothing to activate.

A dashboard from day one

The first time you open it, Popwork builds a ready-to-read dashboard for your company: mood and workload with their trends, a breakdown by division (or by team while your organization is not filled in yet), areas to watch, and adoption and ritual regularity.

It opens on the current month, compared with the same days before, which makes it a good page for your monthly review.

Build the views you need

• Start from a question. Add widgets by asking what you want to know: Where is it getting worse? Are the rituals happening? What are the teams saying? Or pick from the suggestions made for your company.
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• Several dashboards. Create one per audience (executive committee, CHRO, HRBPs) and switch between them in one click. Popwork reopens the last one you viewed.
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• More control. Preview each widget with your data, choose where it goes and how wide it is, add section titles, and undo. The Adoption widget lets you choose its columns.
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• Any period. Pick last month, the last 3, 6 or 12 months, or your own range of up to 12 months.

A clearer summary of the period

The written read of the period is now organized as Summary of the period, Points of tension and Strengths, alongside the words that come back most in your teams' answers.

It is still generated from aggregated figures only: never a quote, never a name, never a group below the anonymity threshold.

Your own traits: split results the way your company works

Admins can now create their own traits (site, job family, region, contract…) from the Organization page, fill them in for one or several people at once, rename them, hide them from the dashboards, or delete them.

A new trait shows up right away as a column in Users and as a breakdown in your dashboards once a group has at least 3 people.

Smaller improvements

• In a team workspace, the tab formerly called "Insights" is now Trends.

• The Dashboard is available in all six languages of the app.

Learn more: The Dashboard (formerly People Insights) and Manage your people's traits in the Help Center.

Today's release puts rituals in your admins' hands, tells you who to follow up with, and gives managers a team score they can trust.

Company rituals: one page to run them all 🏢

Admins now have a dedicated rituals page, with a simple and actionable design.

• Usage: every ritual your company runs, with the teams and employees using it, its frequency, and when it last took place
• Follow-up tab: how often a ritual is held over 90 days, month by month and team by team, with a link to the Adoption tracker
• Questions tab: edit the questions of Popwork's rituals.
• Create a ritual: start from blanck page or from a Popwork template

How edits reach teams.
Popwork's proprietary templates are never edited: your first edit creates your company's version. Changes are then pushed to your teams.

Managers add the company's rituals to their team 👥

The "add a ritual" screen of a team now opens on your company's rituals: Popwork's own, and the rituals your company created.
Picking one attaches the team to it, so later edits from admins reach the team too. Rituals the team already runs are shown as such.

Good to know.
"Create your own" is still available for companies that let managers edit questions. The entry button is now visible to every manager.

Adoption: who to follow up on 📈

The Adoption page now answers two questions: how far people got, and who to go and see.

• Activation in steps: accounts → signed in → in an activated team → with a ritual in place.
• To follow up: three lists with counts, covering people who never signed in, people with no ritual in place, and people whose ritual was never held.
• Managers view: team size, share with a ritual in place, last ritual held, and tools connected.

New Adoption widget in People Insights.
Group people by Direction, Service, job title or manager, see who signed in and who held a ritual, and view a month-by-month heatmap. You can pin it to your dashboards.

A team score in Trends 📊

• Team score: the Trends tab shows your team's score out of 5 per indicator, with its verdict and how it moved versus the previous period.
• Your own period: pick last month, 3, 6 or 12 months, or choose whole months.
• By team: if your organization lets managers see the teams below them, explore them in a tree that opens in place, and compare up to three teams on the chart.
• One score everywhere: the home and the engagement dashboard now use the same scoring rule, so a team no longer shows two different mood scores.

Good to know: this alignment moves some numbers. Check-ins with only neutral words (ok, calm, manageable…) now count 3.75/5 everywhere, and check-ins mixing neutral and negative words now read as negative. Expect some team verdicts to change.

Check-ins keep the pulse of every team, but sometimes you need to ask everyone one specific question: how was the reorg announcement, what do people think of the new office days, how ready are teams for the end-of-year period?

Surveys are short one-off questionnaires you send to the people you choose, open between two dates.

• Built in minutes: up to 5 questions (1–5 scale, single choice or free text)
• Anonymous or named: you pick, and everyone sees exactly how their answer will be used before they reply
• Targeted audiences: the whole company, specific teams, or HR criteria (department, division, job title, tenure…)
• Automatic reminders on email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and in-app notifications
• Results by group, with built-in protection for anonymity

Create and send a survey 📝

Go to Company > Surveys and click Create. Write your questions, choose who is asked, set the opening, closing and reminder dates, and see a live preview of the audience (including invited people who haven't joined Popwork yet). A "who sees what" panel shows the exact privacy notice each person will read before answering.

Managers can send surveys to their own teams too once an admin allows it (see Roles & permissions below). A manager's survey is always named, never anonymous.

Answering takes a minute ⏱️

Each recipient sees the survey at the top of their timeline, visible only to them. It opens full screen like a check-in, one question per screen. Answers are sent all at once and can't be edited afterwards. Written answers use the same editor as check-ins.

Results, by group 📊

Open a survey's results to see participation, the distribution and average of each scale question, choice counts and written answers. Break results down by team, department, division, job title or tenure, using the same dimensions as People Insights.
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For anonymous surveys, groups with too few respondents are hidden (and a second group may be hidden too, so a hidden one can't be deduced). Written answers are shuffled and never split by group.
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When a survey is named and read by managers, answers also appear in the shared space between the employee and their manager, among past check-ins.

Who can see what 🔒

Note: if you don't see Surveys in your Popwork account, they might have been deactivated by your admin

We've reworked two pages admins use every day:

• Roles & permissions: choose a Standard or Custom model, with options grouped by who they concern
• Users & roles: a table that fills your screen, with sorting and clearer roles
• Dialogs that stay usable on small screens

Roles & permissions, reorganised 🔐

• Standard or Custom. Standard is the recommended setup. The page switches to Custom the moment you change an option, with a link back to Standard. The old "Minimal" model is gone.
• Options grouped by audience. Managers (ritual customisation, team management, team visibility, surveys), then Employees.
• Clearer names. Each option states what it allows (for example, adapting ritual templates, not only adding questions). Details sit behind an (i).
• New: "Send surveys". Managers can send surveys only once an admin enables it here. It's off by default.

Good to know — "See team analytics". Turning it off used to empty the manager's whole home page. Now the Team Pulse (matrix, members, check-ins) always shows. The setting removes the analysis: the team's AI brief, the Trends tab and its history, and a member's analysis.

Nothing changes for existing accounts: Standard is what an account with no saved settings already had.

A users table that fits your screen 👥

• Fills the screen with a single scroll, and the user count shown next to the search
• Denser rows: more users visible at once
• Sort by user, role (admins, managers, members, then no role) or manager
• One colour per role, and "No role · to assign" written out in words so you can spot who still needs a role

Dialogs on small screens

On a short screen, or when zoomed in, the "Create a user" dialog could hide its submit button. Dialogs now scroll when they're taller than the screen.

This release brings four visible improvements to help managers stay on top of their teams:

• New Team Pulse — a visual snapshot of team mood and workload
• Improved workload tags — clearer, more readable at a glance
• Redesigned management tips — easier to scan and act on
• Reworked check-in summaries — automatic highlights of key trends

Team Pulse matrix

The new Team Pulse widget on the manager's home page gives you a visual matrix of how your team is doing, at a glance.

Each team member is placed on two axes: mood and workload.

Click on someone to see a quick summary with context behind their position.

Improved Workload tags

The Team Pulse matrix is complemented by the Team table, which presents the same information in table format.
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Workload tags have been redesigned for better readability.

Redesigned management tips

When management tips are available for a team member, they now appear in a clearer, easier-to-read format.

Reworked check-in summary

Rituals across your workspace now automatically include a summary highlighting key information, along with mood and workload trends.

The latest Popwork release is now online.

• Filters have been redesigned
• Comments have been redesigned
• Several bugs have been fixed

Filters redesign

Workspace filters got a visual refresh: options are now organized into columns for better readability and easier navigation.

Comments redesign

We've made commenting on ritual answers smoother:

• The entire answer zone is now clickable to add a comment
• The comment box opens right where you click
• Comments on commitments are now embedded directly within the commitment

We're introducing AI-powered dynamic questions in Popwork, and the Mood question is the first to benefit from this upgrade.

How it works

Based on the team member's previous answers to the Mood question, Popwork's AI selects a few new keywords from a list of expert-curated mood words.

The result: employees get more nuanced ways to express how they're feeling, and managers get a sharper read on their team's sentiment.

How to activate it

The feature is rolling out gradually and might not be available on your account yet.

To check and try it out: go to Team settings > 1:1 meeting > Questions, then toggle the option on for the Mood question. Your team's next check-ins will include it automatically.

The new version of Popwork is live with several updates:

• New Company Menu for Admins 🏢
• Form of Address setting 💁
• Increased security 🔒

New Company Menu for Admins 🏢

The switcher button that enables Admins to switch from their Team view to their Company view has been redesigned.

The Company menu has also been reorganized to make key settings easier to access.

Finally, for users who chose to collapse the left-hand side menu, the menu will automatically uncollapse when the user hovers over menu icons. The menu will then automatically recollapse.

Form of Address setting 💁

In some languages, the form of address between managers and team members directly affects how questions are framed ("Tu" vs "Vous" in French, for example).

Admins can now choose the standard form of address for their company to adapt the Popwork questions to their culture.

Increased security 🔒

A number of extra security measures have been implemented to continue to provide the highest level of security against human and AI threats.

A new view is now available for Commitments: the Calendar View.

To view your commitments in a Calendar View, go to a Popwork workspace and click on the Calendar tab.

You will see all commitments organized by due date.

To add a due date to a commitment, click on the commitment and add a due date.

To learn more about Smart commitments on Popwork, read our help center article.