Changelog - How Popwork gets better, every week
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User management

Week 45 - New menu for Company admins 👀

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Shared by Florian • November 14, 2023

We have just added a new menu for Company admins.

This makes Company features and settings more accessible for admins and they can easily switch between their Team and Company view if they are also managing a team themselves.

Stay tuned, more Company features to come soon!

Other improvements:

  • Improved the display of the call-to-actions in the left menu to improve access to team members
  • Fixed scroll on sign-up page

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

New feature
User management

Week 44 - Sharing answers with several users 👀

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Shared by Florian • November 09, 2023

You can now grant access to dotted-line managers or N+2 who want to get access to the answers of a team member.

This access can be given (and removed) by the direct manager or the team member themselves from the top left of their workspace.

These people are read-only and have access to all incoming answers (not historical ones). Soon, they will also be able to comment and react on these answers as well.

In the event the team member has a new manager, this third-party access for must again be given by the team member or the new manager.

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

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Integrations

Week 43 - Integration with Microsoft Outlook calendar 📅

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Shared by Florian • October 25, 2023

We are glad to announce that Microsoft Outlook users can now sync Popwork with their calendar!

Simply connect your Microsoft Outlook calendar in Popwork’s Team settings. Your Popwork rituals will be added and synchronized with your and your team members' Microsoft Outlook calendars.

From the calendar invite, participants will get direct access to Popwork to prepare for the meeting.

Other improvements:

  • The free trial period countdown now resets at 21 days when managers complete their team onboarding
  • We added filters to retrieve items categorized as priorities, performance and skills
  • We fixed a bug in the subject of comment notifications
  • We changed the icon of archived objective to differentiate from active objectives
  • We now offer the possibility to enforce login with Microsoft or Google for specific organizations

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

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Insights

Week 42 - Popwork adoption tracker 📊

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Shared by Florian • October 25, 2023

Admins and HRs can now easily monitor the adoption of Popwork in their organization, manager by manager.

From their Settings, admins and HRs can visualize which managers have onboarded their teams on Popwork, which management rituals they have activated and for how many people on their teams.

This is part of a broader effort to support HR executives in the roll-out of Popwork across their company.

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

Insights
Improvements

Week 41 - New manager recap table 📊

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Shared by Florian • October 25, 2023

We have just released a new version of the team recap for managers.

It’s a simple table that helps managers visually identify the key pulse metrics of their team members: how they are doing in terms of mood and workload.

The RAG (Red, Amber, Green) indicators enable managers to see in a glimpse any alerts that might need further digging.

From there, managers can zoom in on historical evolution and access raw historical answers.

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

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Insights

Week 40 - Select time period in dashboard 📊

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Shared by Florian • October 12, 2023

You can now select between 3, 6 and 12 months time period in your dashboard.

This helps managers and admins better understand mood and workload trends over a longer period of time.

More graphs and indicators will be added soon to the dashboard - stay tuned!

Other improvements:

  • Buttons in Slack notifications now open the right workspace
  • The call to action to invite users to connect their tools with Popwork is not shown anymore if the user connected all the available integrations
  • A due date is now added by default when creating an objective
  • Objectives are now sorted the same way across all different views
  • Made small design improvements across the app
  • Fixed a small bug affecting the display of the frequency of the mood question
  • Fixed a bug preventing managers to edit questions when activating a ritual

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

Check-in
Improvements
Insights

Week 39 - New workload question 🔋

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Shared by Florian • September 27, 2023

We’ve just made workload much easier to measure on Popwork! The workload question is now based on a simple 5-step scale.

It makes it easier for team members to share their current workload by choosing among five answers:

  • Not enough work 🥱
  • I can do more 👍
  • All good 👌
  • I have a lot to do 🔥
  • Too much work 🥵

Managers can more easily monitor the workload of their team members and spot workload issues. A new workload chart is available in their dashboard with a more actionable breakdown:

  • Too much work
  • Good workload
  • Low workload

This way, admin and managers have a clear view of the actual workload for their organization or teams, and can take appropriate actions.

Other improvements:

  • Comments now appear below action items
  • Each ritual now have a different background color to help user differentiate them
  • Access to objectives is now fully mobile responsive
  • A number of improvements have been made to the onboarding on mobile
  • Small fine tuning were made to the new ritual answer interface

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

Objectives
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Week 37 - New objectives indicators in the dashboard and more 🎯

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Shared by Florian • September 14, 2023

We doubled down on the objectives module following a first upgrade at the end of July to make objectives easier to track!

1) New objectives indicators

Admin and managers now have indicators in their dashboard to quickly (i) see how many team members have objectives, and (ii) what is the status of objectives in their organization or team

2) Simplified workflow to archive objectives

An objective can now be archived in one click. You will be able to record the level of attainment on a goal attainment scale. Archived objectives can be accessed in the “Archived objectives” tab.

3) Comments on objectives

Comments are now available on objectives status updates to help users follow up directly in Popwork.

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

Week 36 - Access action items when answering a ritual ✅

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Shared by Florian • September 14, 2023

We have released a series of improvements to help team members better leverage Popwork data when answering questions.

Team members can now access their action items, which is particularly useful when answering the achievements, priorities or challenges questions.

More broadly, team members can now access all their past answers in the side panel accessible in a single click.

We have also the design of the progress bar and show tips more clearly below each question.

Other improvements:

  • Clicking on Popwork logo now redirects team members to their workspace
  • Several responsive improvements have been made to buttons and labels

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟

Integrations
Improvements

Week 35 - Move ritual events directly in Google Calendar 🗓

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Shared by Florian • September 14, 2023

Since June 2023, you can connect Popwork with your Google Calendar and add recurring Popwork rituals into your calendar.

We have now fully synchronized Popwork and Google Calendar : Moving Popwork events in your Google Calendar is reflected in Popwork and invitations and reminders to answer questions will be sent at the right time.

For instance, if you move your next 1:1 meeting from Thursday 10:00am to Monday at 09.30am, Popwork will invite your team member to prepare the meeting on Friday, not Wednesday.

If you’d like to know what we’re building next, check our product roadmap.

The Popwork team 🤟