We are so excited when we release new features and enhancements - we cannot wait to hear how our customers use them to improve their employee experience. Most new features and enhancements are automatically enabled for your organization's Workvivo when they become available, but some are optional or add-ons. For any optional features, let us know if you would like them enabled. Keep an eye on our newsletters and this page to see what's new!
September 2024
Enhancements
- External Users - External users can now be mentioned and receive Kudos
- Chat - Moderation - Reporting a message - Users can now report or flag a message if they deem inappopriate. Actions can then be taken by the Admin to allow or remove the message. More on Reporting a message here
- Chat - Preview- Users will see a preview of the attachment before its sent to the channel. More on Chat here
- Atlassian Search - Users can now connect to Jira or Confluence - there no longer a dependency to have both. More info here
APIs
- Users - Assign & Un-assign badges to users + Join Spaces
August 2024
New Features
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Advanced Platform Analytics - Five new dashboards:
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Documents Dashboard: Understand your top documents, view trends over time, and document engagement for Global Document, Space Documents and Space Files. More on the Document dashboard here
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Teams Leaderboard - Understand your top teams relative to one another by a multiple of active and passive measurements. More on the Teams Leaderboard here
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Teams Drilldown - Drill down into one specific team and get all the measurement you need to understand their use of Workvivo. More on the Teams Drilldown here
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Shoutouts - Understand how shoutouts are being used across the organization and build a culture of recognition. More on the Shoutouts dashboard here
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Values/Goals - Determine and measure how company values and goals are being communicated and demonstrated across the organization. More on the Values dashboard here
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Standard Platform Analytics:
- Competitions Dashboard - This dashboard was designed to make running competitions within the platform as easy as possible. Quickly pull a list of everyone who reacted to or commented on a post, who voted in a poll (or even voted a specific answer to a poll), or who received a specific badge. More on the Competitions dashboard here
Enhancements
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Platform Analytics (all versions):
- Addition of a "Unique Reactors" metric to Content dashboards. This shows the unique number of users who reacted in the time period selected, and is useful for those using emoji reactions
- Addition of a Shoutout report. This provides a replacement for the shoutout report in the old version of analytics which will now be sunset. It can be found that the end of the Content Analytics dashboard.
- Addition of "created at" and "last updated" fields to the Delegate Assignments table as hidden fields available on export. This allows admins to understand when delegations were configured or updated.
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Filterable Survey Analytics Export: When the survey analytics screen has been filtered by an employee segment, this filter persists through to the analytics export file. More on Surveys here.
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Employee Insights
- Additional Round Filtering on Drivers & Values: You now have the ability to filter engagement Drivers & Values by survey round.
- Confirmation Fireworks: Ability to add Firework animation to the survey confirmation screen.
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Comments Count chip: Our comment count gives you an immediate sense of how many comments you have filtered down to on the commments dashboard.
More on Employee Insights here.
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Mega Menu Tab Limit: We increased the tab limit on Mega Menu from 10 to 20 to help accommodate multiple languages/locations in one menu. More on Mega Menu here.
- New Translations: Added support for Icelandic. More on Workvivo Localization on Web and Mobile here.
Workvivo APIs - We have added updates to Workvivo's APIs:
July 2024
New Features
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Employee Insights - Employee Insights is a powerful listening tool integrated into the Workvivo platform. This innovative solution offers you a comprehensive approach to measuring, understanding, and improving employee engagement.
Utilizing Workvivo’s 12-Factor Engagement Model, developed in collaboration with leading industrial and organizational psychologists, Employee Insights helps you easily identify what’s working and not working in your employee engagement strategy. More on Employee Insights here.
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ServiceNow Search Integration - This integration will allow you to search for content from ServiceNow directly through Workvivo’s advanced search filters. More on ServiceNow Search here.
Enhancements
- Global Page Audience - You now have the ability to set a specific audience on Global Pages for content that should have the prominence of a Global Page but is not relevant to everyone across the entire organisation. More on Global Pages here.
- Chat - Analytics- Admins have the ability to see analytics for chat. These are available on the chat admin menu. More on Chat here
- Chat - Voice Messages - Chat users can send voice messages in 1:1 and groups. Voice Messages are audio recordings made to capture spoken notes, ideas, reminders, or any other auditory content. More on Voice Messages here
Workvivo APIs - We have added updates to Workvivo's APIs:
June 2024
New Features
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New Survey Experience - We know how important Surveys are to organizations, so we have completely re-imagined our Survey experience to deliver a delightful new consumer-grade experience for survey managers and participants. Our redesigned survey interface enhances response rates, ensuring every voice is heard. With new question types and the ability to choose between anonymous or named responses, you have the flexibility to create innovative surveys, like a quarterly eNPS or engaging office quizzes. More on Surveys here.
Enhancements
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Workvivo TV - Our new Workvivo TV design update brings you stunning UI enhancements and seamless Zoom Rooms integration, making content display more dynamic and engaging. Enjoy our new widget for upcoming meetings, customized banners for Zoom Rooms, and beautifully redesigned template layouts and widgets. More on Workvivo TV here.
- New Translations: Added support for Armenian, Welsh, Kanada and Malayalam. More on Workvivo Localization on Web and Mobile here.
May 2024
New Features
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Emoji Reactions - Express yourself effortlessly - Emoji Reactions bring the activity feed to life, instantly capturing the essence of your thoughts and emotions! Out of the box and Custom Reactions supported. More on Emoji Reactions here.
Enhancements
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Mega Menu Enhancements - Our new 'Publish Mega Menu' option gives you time to build out your Mega Menu in the background before it is ready to be enabled for all users to see. We have also increased our menu tab limit and introduced the ability to set an audience and publish date on your menu's first tab. More on Mega Menu here.
April 2024
New Features
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Link click tracking in articles - when viewing content analytics for articles it is now possible to view a breakdown of total and unique clicks for each link contained within the article. More of Article Analytics here.
Integrations & APIs
- Workvivo APIs - We have added a number of updates to Workvivo's APIs:
Enhancements
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Search Badge Assignees: When viewing badge assignees it is now possible to search by name or filter by taxonomy. More on Badges here.
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Highlighted Content for Workvivo TV : When using the autofeed option for the summary template in Workvivo TV, it is now possible to prioritise content based on high engagement and from highlighted accounts. More on Workvivo TV Templates here.
- Optional Content Widgets for Workvivo TV: When using the summary template in Workvivo TV, it is now possible to turn on/off the article, events and today widget. More on Workvivo TV Templates here.
- Disable Generated Video Subtitles for Workvivo TV: When using the video template in Workvivo TV, it is now possible to prevent the automatically generated video subtitles from displaying. This is useful when the video being uploaded already contains subtitles. More on Workvivo TV Templates here.
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Value Translations - This new feature allows you to translate the name and description of your existing values into your preferred languages. More on our Value Translations here.
- Colour Coded Classification Tags: Help classification tags stand out more throughout Workvivo by designating colour codes to each tag. More on Classification Tags here.
- Translated Video Subtitles for Workvivo TV: When using the video template in Workvivo TV, subtitles will now generate for the dashboard audience language. More on Workvivo TV Templates here.
- Chat - Chat Reactions available on Mobile. More on Chat here
- Zoom Integrations - added to start a Zoom chat/call from the users profile. More on Zoom Integrations here
- Zoom Integrations - added the ability for admins to turn on and off certain quick action links. More on Zoom Integrations here
- Translations - Added "See Translations" button to Events Summary on the activity feed
March 2024
New Features
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Billboards by Audience: In addition to global audiences, billboards can now be set to display for users of specific teams and spaces. More on Billboards here.
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Billboard Analytics: Content Analytics such as reach and engagement are now available on Billboards. More on Billboards here.
- Box Search Integration: This integration enables you to search "Box" content via Workvivo's advanced filters. More on our Box Integration here
Enhancements
- Smart Feed: The Smart Feed prioritizes content from connected users and highlights engaged content while providing a personalized and consistent user experience. Admin can also set content from highlighted users (Max 10). More on the Smart Feed here
- New Translations: Added support for Vietnamese and a new dialect of Catalan - Cataluña. More on Workvivo Localization on Web and Mobile here.
January 2024
New Features
- Custom Timezone Manager: The custom timezone manager affords admins the ability to add new timezones to Workvivo specific to their organizations needs. More on Timezones here.
- Video Subtitle Translation: Building on the recent release of subtitles for videos uploaded to the activity feed, we have now introduced the ability to add up to five default video subtitle translation languages. More on Video Subtitles here.
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Billboards by Audience: In addition to global audiences, billboards can now be set to display for users of specific teams and spaces. More on Billboards here.
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Billboard Analytics: Content Analytics such as reach and engagement are now available on Billboards. More on Billboards here.
Enhancements
- New Article Experience: We have given our Articles a complete facelift, providing a delightful new user experience and adding some cool functionality along the way. More on Articles here.
- Redesigned Article Notification Emails: We’ve completely re-designed article notification emails to help you increase engagement on your most important content. More on Articles here.
- Campaign Feed: The Campaign Feed gives you an easy way to see all of the feed activity relating to your campaigns. This feed filter enables you to quickly digest all of the content relating to a specific Campaign and socialise it with other users. More on Campaigns here.
- Timezone Picker: The new timezone picker will allow customers to select their timezone from a standardized list of GMT formatted time zones, including common timezones such as MST, EST, PST, etc. More on Timezones here.
- Workvivo TV - Optional Weather Widget: In order to cater for the scenario where Workvivo TV may be set up in a location where local weather information is not available, the weather widget will now be an optional configuration setting. More on Workvivo TV here.
- New Translations: Added support for Catalan - Valencia on both web and mobile. More on Workvivo Localization on Web and Mobile here.
- Chat: The text box for chat is now more responsive and allows line breaks. More on Chat here