Performance Review for Employee: All Sections and Widgets
The Performance Review for Employee view in Workalizer gives a single, data-rich picture of one employee: communication volume, initiative and ownership, schedule and punctuality, time allocation, independent work, attendance, work-life balance, policy compliance, and AI adoption. This guide walks through every section and widget so you can run reviews with full context.
What Is Performance Review for Employee?
Performance Review for Employee is Workalizer’s per-person report that pulls together one employee’s activity from Gmail, Drive, Meet, and Chat into one place. Instead of guessing how someone spends their time or how they collaborate, you see concrete metrics: how much they initiate vs receive, how their time is split across meetings and independent work, how they align with the team on schedule and location, and how they use AI. The view is built for evidence-based performance conversations: you can reference specific numbers and trends rather than impressions, support calibration across teams, and tie feedback to observable behavior. It is the main input for preparing and running individual performance reviews and for fairness and consistency in how people are evaluated.
Who Benefits
- Managers and Team Leads: To prepare and run evidence-based performance conversations with direct reports.
- HR and People Operations: To support calibration, succession, and fairness in reviews.
- Employees (where allowed): To self-assess and align with how their work is measured.
Integrating Workalizer Insights into the Performance Review Process
You can use the Employee view at three stages of the review cycle:
- Before the conversation: Open the employee’s Performance Review, set the period to the review window (e.g. last quarter), and scroll through each section. Use the data to identify strengths (e.g. high initiative, strong collaboration, good meeting attendance) and areas to discuss (e.g. meeting load, work-life balance, external sharing). Optionally use AI Insights on key sections (see below) to get a short summary and talking points so you don’t have to interpret every chart yourself.
- During the review: Reference specific widgets when giving feedback (e.g. “Your communication by activity label shows strong focus on Project X; let’s talk about balancing that with support work”). Share the view with the employee if your policy allows, so the conversation is grounded in the same data.
- After the conversation and for calibration: Use the same view to compare employees on a level playing field (same period, same sections). Cross-check with Performance Review for Manager to see whether manager time allocation aligns with what you see in each employee’s data.
Integrating these insights reduces bias, saves preparation time, and makes reviews more consistent and defensible.
Using AI Insights to Save Time and Uncover Hidden Insights
Many sections and widgets in the Employee Performance Review offer an AI Insights control. Using it delivers two major benefits: time saving and hidden insights you might otherwise miss.
- Time saving: Instead of reading every chart and table yourself, click AI Insights on a section (e.g. Communication, Initiative and Ownership, Time Management). Workalizer generates a concise summary and, where relevant, recommendations or comparisons. You get a ready-made narrative for that section in seconds, so you can cover more employees in less time and focus the conversation on what matters.
- Hidden insights: The AI analyzes the same data you see but can surface non-obvious patterns: for example, a shift in time allocation toward one project, a sent-vs-received ratio that stands out from the team, meeting load that’s high relative to the previous period, or work-life balance signals (e.g. extended hours, break patterns). These insights help you ask better questions and address issues you might not have spotted by scanning numbers alone.
Use AI Insights on each section or widget that supports it—Communication, Initiative and Ownership, Schedule, Time Management, Attendance, Work-Life Balance, Policy Compliance, AI Adoption—to build a full, AI-assisted prep in minutes rather than hours, and to uncover insights that would otherwise stay hidden in the raw data.
How to Access
Go to /performance-review/ and select an employee (or org unit and then the employee). Open the Employee tab (Employee Performance Review). All sections and widgets below appear in this view. Use the same Period and scope as needed; data is specific to the selected person. For a manager-focused view, see Performance Review for Manager. For team-level metrics, see Performance Review for Team (Work Patterns).
Communication Section
This section shows how the employee communicates across email, Chat, and Meet.
- User Initiated Communication: Number of emails sent, chat messages initiated, and Google Meet sessions organized by the employee.
- User Received Communication: Total emails received, chat messages received, and Meet sessions participated in.
- Sent vs Received Ratio: Comparison of volume sent versus received (emails and chat) for balance and responsiveness context.
- By Activity Label: Documents, chat messages, and Meet sessions sent, received, or participated in, grouped by activity label.
- By Peer Type: Volume of communication broken down by who they interact with (e.g. team, other colleagues, external).
- Meetings by Time Period: Number of meetings attended over time to assess meeting load and time allocation.
- Most Frequent Communication Partners: Individuals the employee communicates with most across documents, chat, and meetings.
- By Weekdays: When communication happens most (documents, chats, meetings by day of week).
- Chat Rooms by Message Volume: Chat rooms where the employee posted the most messages (most active spaces).
- By Collaborative Time: Time spent in meetings versus chat conversations with team and colleagues.
- Chat Response Speed and Frequency: How quickly and how often the employee replies to direct chat messages.
Initiative and Ownership Section
Focuses on what the employee creates and owns, and how they collaborate on content.
- Created Items by Activity Label: Documents, meetings, events, and chat rooms grouped by activity label.
- Created Items by Type: Count of documents, meetings, events, and chat rooms created or initiated.
- Doc Review Count: Document revision and review count before final version (collaborative editing depth).
- Most Popular Documents: Documents ranked by total interactions (views, edits, comments, downloads).
- Top Recurring Events and Meetings: Recurring meetings and events by activity label (how time is allocated to recurring work).
- User Activity on Resolving: Documents where the employee resolved comments or suggestions (follow-through and collaboration).
Schedule and Punctuality Section
Shows where and when the employee works and how they align with the team.
- Work Location Breakdown: Time spent working from home versus in the office.
- Consistency of Attendance in Meets: Which recurring team meetings the employee attended or missed over time.
- Planned vs Ad Hoc Meetings: Balance between planned and ad-hoc (spontaneous) meetings organized by the employee.
- Workday Alignment with Team: How the employee's workday start and end times align with their team members.
Time Management Section
- Working Time Allocation by Label: How working time is allocated across activity labels (meetings with duration, documents, chat, etc.).
Independent Work Section
- Created and Owned Files: Total files the employee has created and currently owns in Google Drive.
- Shared Files: How many files the employee has shared internally and externally.
- Time Spent on Activities: Time spent on independent tasks (email, chat, document work, etc.).
Attendance Section
- Activity Heatmap: Daily activity as a grid; each square is a day, color intensity shows activity level.
- Scheduled Meet Attendance Rate: How regularly the employee attends scheduled meetings.
- Workday Alignment with Team: Workday start and end times compared with team members (also in Schedule section).
Work-Life Balance Section
- Breaks During Work Indicator: Daily grid showing whether breaks were taken during the workday.
- Days with Extended Work Hours: Workdays highlighted when hours extend beyond the norm.
Policy Compliance Section
- Docs Shared Externally: Number of documents shared with people outside the organization.
- Docs Shared Externally by Label: Number and types of files shared externally, by activity label.
AI Adoption and Usage Section
- Invocations by App: How often the employee uses Gemini across Workspace apps, with team comparison and estimated time.
- Invocations by Action: Gemini usage by action type, compared to team and previous period.
- Power AI Users: View of users who actively use Gemini AI (invocation counts, time, comparisons).
Daily Timeline Section
- Daily Timeline: Timeline view of the employee's daily activities and events.
Step-by-Step: Using the Employee Performance Review
- Open Performance Review: Go to /performance-review/ and select the org unit (if applicable) and the employee.
- Select the Employee tab: Ensure the Employee (Employee Performance Review) tab is active so all sections above are visible.
- Set the period: Choose the Period (e.g. Month, Quarter) that matches your review cycle.
- Use AI Insights first to save time: Where available, click AI Insights on each section to get summaries and recommendations before diving into the numbers. This uncovers hidden patterns and shortens prep time.
- Scroll by section: Use Communication, Initiative & Ownership, Schedule, Time Management, Independent Work, Attendance, Work-Life Balance, Compliance, AI, and Daily Timeline to gather evidence and validate or deepen what AI Insights highlighted.
- Drill down where needed: Click or hover on widgets to see breakdowns and open linked items (e.g. documents, meetings) for detail.
