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.

We have released a small update:

• updated user invitations tracker 📮
• added Italian as a language 🇮🇹

Users invitation tracker 📮

Admin can access this view in Company > Users & Roles > Invitations.

The updated view enables account admins to track invited managers statuses:

• invited: user has been invited
• connected: user has logged in (but not activated their team)
• activated: user has activated their team
• resend needed: invitation has expired

Admins can also deep dive on team members statuses if needed.

Available languages 🌐

Admins can now create users with the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese.

Users can update their preferred language in My profile > Language

We've shipped two updates this week: a refreshed Engagement Tracking experience and a brand new Permissions panel for admins.
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New: Permissions & visibility panel 🆕

Admins can now fully customize what managers and employees are allowed to do on Popwork — shaping the platform around your own management culture instead of a one-size-fits-all model.
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You can start from a preset:

• Standard (recommended) — managers keep autonomy over their teams and rituals
• Minimum control — managers stick to the essentials: 1:1s and rituals

...then fine-tune each permission individually, including:

• Adding one-off questions
• Editing ritual templates
• Managing members
• Sharing 1:1 workspaces
• Viewing team analytics
• Viewing all teams (org-wide visibility, like an admin)
• Viewing indirect teams (aggregate data on managers' managers)

Employee-level permissions (sharing 1:1 workspaces, creating goals) can also be toggled on or off.
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To set this up, go to My company > Permissions & visibility.

Engagement Tracking, redesigned 🎨

Engagement Tracking has a cleaner new look. You can now navigate your org chart breadcrumb-style (All teams > Manager > Manager...) and see, at a glance, each direct report's Sentiment and Charge scores side by side.

This makes it faster to spot who's overloaded, who's disengaged, and where to focus first — especially across larger or multi-layered teams.

To access it, go to Home > Engagement tracking, or click on any manager's name to drill into their team.

We have shipped a number of small improvements on Popwork during the past weeks.

Team Pulse design enhancement

We have added new pulse blocks to help managers see in the glance:

• whether the team member shared positive, mixed or negative pulse indicators (red, amber, green blocks)
• or whether the team member skipped the Popwork check-in (grey block)

This makes it easy to see Team Members' engagement and pulse evolution over the past period.

To access the Team Pulse widget, simply go to Home.

Other fixes

Here is a list of small improvements or fixes delivered:

• Dedicated SSO error page with Admin context
• Redirect fix when user gets new manager seat
• Slack integration fixes
• Add a question modal auto-closure fix
• Fix load full commitment on inline chip click

Popwork has two new features:

• A new AI-powered Team Pulse Dashboard ✨
• Custom Ritual creation 🗽

Team Pulse Dashboard ✨

The new Team Pulse Dashboard introduces 3 new features:

• A quantitative and qualitative team analysis
• An exec summary per team member
• Contextual management tips

Using your team member's context and our expert management tips, Popwork can now share smart, contextual tips with managers.

Custom Ritual Creation 🗽

Managers can now create their own custom rituals for their teams.

Rituals can be created from:

• An existing template you customize
• AI suggested templates
• Manually from a blank sheet

To create a Custom Ritual, go to Team Settings > "Create a ritual"

Managers can now add an individual question to an upcoming Popwork ritual.

They have the choice between:

• Creating the question(s) manually
• Adding a smart suggestion

Creating an individual question manually ✍️

Individual questions are asked just once to one team member.

To add an individual question, go to a workspace and open the upcoming ritual. Click on "+Add an extra question".

You can customize your question with:

• The label of your choice
• The answer type (text, scale, stars, emojis, word cloud)

Adding a suggested question 🤖

You can also add a suggested question from Popwork. Suggested questions are written by the Popwork AI, taking into account the team member's past answers and management best practices.

To add a suggested answer, go to a workspace and open the upcoming ritual. Click on "+Add" on one of the suggested questions.

Editing an added question ⚙️

You can edit an added question:

• drag & drop it to change in which position it will be asked
• click on the bin icon to delete the question

New question editor in Team settings ❓

Managers also benefit from a new question editor in their Team settings.

This enables managers to customize recurring team questions. For each question, managers can customize:

• The label
• The answer type (text, scale, stars, emojis, word cloud)
• Its frequency (every time or once a month)

Admins can customize available questions labels 🎨

Popwork admins can customize system labels to fit their company's tone of voice and create their own labels.

To do this, admins can go to My Account > My company > Labels