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2025 Release Notes

Nathan Mayes
  • Updated

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!

 

June 2025

Enhancements

  • Space Auto-enrolment: A redesigned space selection experience enables you to better search and select the space you want to configure auto-enrolment settings for. More on Enrolling People and Teams to Spaces.
  • Employee Insights - 'Copy Link' for Scheduled Surveys: You can now copy the link to a scheduled survey before it goes live - perfect for generating QR codes and planning comms in advance. More on Employee Insights here.
  • Employee Insights - Compare More Segment Results at a Glance: We’ve increased the segment row limit in Radar to 15, enabling you to compare more groups and uncover deeper insights across your organisation. More on Employee Insights here.

May 2025

Enhancements

  • New Livestream Playback Experience: We’ve introduced a new playback experience for RTMPS Livestreams, bringing replays to life with synced reactions, real-time chat replay, and rich comment interactions. Viewers can relive the moment as it happened, access detailed analytics, and easily share the recording - all from the original livestream URL. More on the New Playback Experience here.
  • Workvivo AI in-region processing: Workvivo AI now supports regional data processing, allowing AI functionality to be handled within specific geographic regions rather than globally. This enhancement helps ensure data privacy compliance and improved performance for users in different locations.
  • Workvivo AI Permissions: AI administrators can easily give all users access to the Ask, Compose and Survey generation AI features. Instead of assigning AI access permissions user by user, administrators can now enable access to the AI features for all users with the flick of a switch. More on managing AI permissions here.

April 2025

New Features

  • Advanced Analytics Sentiment Dashboard: Get an overview of the sentiment across the organization based on a sentiment analysis of updates, shout-outs, questions and answers, and comments. Identify trends, filter by teams and proactively get ahead of potential issues. Available for customers who have the Advanced Analytics Add-On. More detail on this dashboard here.

  • Manual Edit of Video Subtitle: We’ve added the ability to manually edit automatically generated subtitles on videos. This gives you more control and ensures better accuracy—especially for important communications across regions and languages. Subtitles are still auto-generated, but now you can fine-tune them as needed. More details here.

  • Manual Post Translation: Workvivo now supports Manual Post Translations for Updates, Shout-Outs, and Value Updates. While Amazon Translate provides automatic, real-time translations, this new feature allows you to add and edit translations manually for greater accuracy. This is especially useful in industries where precision is critical. More details here.
  • Workvivo App in MS Teams: Workvivo is now available in the Microsoft Teams App Store. This integration will allow users to seamlessly access the Workvivo experience directly within Teams—bringing company communications, culture, and engagement into the flow of daily work. More details here.

Enhancements

  • Access Newsletters in-browser: Great news, from today, all newsletters sent via Workvivo can also be accessed in-browser. Check out our knowledge base for more information on this feature
  • Chat - Create Channels from Spaces or Teams:All chat customers now have access to the following enhancements: Chat group size limit increased to 500 (up from 250), Create chat groups directly from Spaces (up to 500 members) via Chat Admin, Create chat groups from Teams (up to 500 members) via Chat Admin. More details here.
  • Space Auto-enrolment: A redesigned enrolment flow for provisioning spaces allows you to first pick the space and then select the teams you want to be enrolled, making the experience more simple and streamlined. More on Enrolling People and Teams to Spaces.

API/Integration Enhancements:

  • Add endpoints to report comments
  • Add a new endpoint to GET all available reactions for an organisation
  • Add comments, likes, replies endpoint to events
  • Add GET documents endpoint
  • Add a new endpoint to report updates/kudos
  • Add endpoint to RSVP to an event
  • Add language code to Content Resources
  • Add audience field to events endpoints
  • Add GET Apps endpoint
  • Gracefully handle webhook oAuth failures

March 2025

New Features

  • Sentiment Analysis:

    Sentiment Analysis is a key element of Workvivo's Employee Listening Suite, empowering you with more continuous insights into sentiment across the organization at any moment in time. More on Sentiment Analysis here.

  • Manager Insights in Employee Insights: Manager Insights is a key part of Workvivo's Employee Insights that gives individual managers direct access to their team’s engagement survey results, helping them understand how their team feels. With clear insights, they can spot issues, celebrate successes, and take meaningful action to improve engagement. More on Manager Insights here.
  • Analytics Update - Usage Heatmaps: Two usage heatmaps added to Usage Analytics. These allow Admins and Internal Comms users to better understand when people are most active and plan content scheduling accordingly. More information can be found in the Usage Analytics Help Centre article
  • Analytics Update - Reported Content Dashboard: Dashboard added to Governance Analytics. This provides key information on what content (posts and comments) have been reported and why, and enables quick action by admins. More information can be found on the Governance Reporting Dashboard Help Centre article
  • Advanced Analytics Update - Advanced Livestream Analytics Dashboard: A brand new dashboard dedicated to RTMPS Livestreams, showing information on overall Livestream use, detailed statistics on each livestream, and detailed graphs and tables on each livestream such as attendees, chat messages, concurrent viewers, reactions and message trends. More on the Livestream Dashboard here

Enhancements

  • Advanced Analytics - Hashtags dashboard now includes comments: Previously the Hashtags dashboard (available as part of Advanced Analytics) did not count hashtag use in comments, only in the main body of the post. Now this dashboard also counts the use of hashtags in comments. More on Hashtag Analytics here
  • Employee Insights - Edit Live Survey End Date: Admins can now modify the end date of a live survey, offering greater flexibility to extend its duration and collect more responses if needed. More on Employee Insights here.
  • New Translations: Added support for Lithuanian and Latvian. More on Workvivo Localization on Web and Mobile here. 
  • Grouped Notifications for Comments & Reactions: 

    To keep Workvivo engaging yet focused, notifications for similar interactions are grouped together—helping you stay informed while keeping your feed tailored (enabled for web, push and email notifications). More on Workvivo Notifications here.

  • Add a Video to your Survey Intro Screen: You can now add a video to your survey intro screen - perfect for sharing a personal message or setting the tone before employees respond to your survey. More on Surveys here. 
  • Q&A Posting Permissions: Posting restrictions within a Space are now split out into separate configurations so that restrictions can be set for the Feed and the Q&A individually. For more information, go to Space Design and Setup.

February 2025

New Features

  • Workvivo AI

    We're excited to announce the launch of Workvivo AI, designed to simplify your content creation experience, streamline the process of creating effective surveys and seamlessly integrate with Workvivo's extensive knowledge base in addition to custom articles. The new AI panel will efficiently streamline your daily workflow, saving both time and effort.

    More on Overview of Workvivo AI here.

Enhancements 

  • Updated Posting Experience

    We've made posting much simpler with a fresh new look. The improved design lets you upload multiple files at once, edit your text exactly as it will appear thanks to the new editor, and paste content straight into your posts, plus more helpful features.

    More on Posting an update here.

 

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