How the team is doing

How is the team actually doing this week?

Five screens, five different questions. Open the one that matches the question you have, not all five.

Productivity and activityWhere did the hours go? Active against idle, day by day, per person.

App and website useWhich tools took the time, and how much of it is still unclassified.

WellnessIs anyone heading for burnout? Long days, after-hours and weekend work.

ScorecardWho is ahead and who is behind, as a score out of 100.

Time and motionWho is working hard with nothing to show for it.

The weekly check, in order

1. Coverage first. On Productivity and activity, set the period to the last 7 days and read the people count in the heading. Anybody with no tracked time is a setup problem, not a performance problem - and every other number on the page is wrong until it is fixed.

2. Then the unclassified share. On App and website use, read the Uncategorized figure. A large one means the rules do not know your tools yet, and the productive percentage below it is not worth arguing about. Send the top unclassified apps to your admin.

3. Then wellness. The Overburdened tile is the one with a person’s name behind it. Switch to the Detailed roster to see who.

4. Last, performance. Scorecard and time and motion. Leave them until the three above are clean.

This is the screen that catches something before it becomes a resignation. The bands are fixed: healthy is a 6.5 to 8.5 hour day, overburdened is over 9 hours, a run of three 10-hour days, or more than a fifth of the work after hours.

Note

Wellness is always the last 30 days. There is no period picker on it, so it cannot be lined up with a week you are looking at elsewhere.

Its employee picker does rescope everything on the page - tiles, donut and roster together.

The one-click check your dashboard already does

Scroll past the tiles on your dashboard to What needs attention first. It reads the same reports and writes up to five findings in plain words. Each one carries the next step and a link to the rows behind it.

It fires when	Tone
One person in five is overburdened (20% or more)	Act now
Goal achievement falls under 80%	This week
Active share falls under 60%	This week
One person in four is underused (25% or more)	Worth a look
One person in four has no tracked time at all (25% or more)	Worth a look

When nothing fires it says so, and tells you what it checked: “Every signal checked is inside its threshold.” The badge reads All clear.

That is a faster weekly check than opening five reports.

Note

This card is for managers and admins. An employee never sees it, so a finding about somebody is not something they already know about.

Three numbers to distrust

A productive percentage with a large unclassified share beside it. The rules have not caught up with the tools.

Any figure from a person’s first two weeks. A late install and a missing rule move a number further than behaviour does.

A scorecard rank on a small team. Somebody is always last out of four. The rank says nothing the three pillars underneath it do not say better.

What the reports cannot do

No report has a team filter

Productivity and activity, app usage, wellness, scorecard and time and motion are all whole-workspace screens. There is no “my direct reports” scope anywhere in reporting.

The one screen in the product with a team filter is Alerts.

The tiles are the whole workspace. The table underneath is what the employee picker changes - and only the table.

The employee picker on Productivity and activity does not do what it looks like

In the Summary view it filters the table rows only. The six tiles above it stay on the whole workspace, so the page can show one person’s row under everybody’s totals.

The way to rescope that whole report to one person is to arrive with the person already chosen - click a name on your dashboard, or the eye icon on a row. Then the tiles follow.

Wellness does not have this problem. Its picker rescopes everything.

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