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Performance Review for Team (Work Patterns): All Sections and Widgets
Performance Review for Team (Work Patterns) in Workalizer shows the same structure of metrics as the employee view, but aggregated at team level: communication, initiative and ownership, schedule and punctuality, time management, independent work, attendance, work-life balance, policy compliance, and AI adoption. Use it to see team patterns, compare teams, and support team-level reviews and planning.
Who Benefits
- Managers and Team Leads: To see team-wide communication, output, and work patterns in one place.
- HR and Operations: To compare teams, spot overload or under-engagement, and align with org goals.
- Leadership: To review Work Patterns (team-level) alongside Employee and Manager views for a full picture.
How to Access
Go to /work-patterns/. Select the Org Unit (team) and Period at the top. All sections and widgets below are shown for that team aggregate. Work Patterns is the team-level counterpart to the per-employee Performance Review; there is no separate "Performance Review for Team" tab—the team view lives under Work Patterns. For per-person detail, use Performance Review for Employee; for manager time with each report, use Performance Review for Manager.
Communication Section
Team-level communication volume and balance.
- Initiated Communication: Number of emails sent, chat messages initiated, and Google Meet sessions organized by the team.
- Received Communication: Total emails received, chat messages received, and Meet sessions participated in by the team.
- Sent vs Received Ratio: Comparison of volume the team sends versus receives (emails and chat).
- By Activity Label: Documents, chat messages, and Meet sessions the team has sent, received, or participated in, grouped by activity label.
- Meetings by Time Period: Number of meetings the team attended over time (meeting load and allocation).
- By Weekdays: When team communication happens most (documents, chats, meetings by day of week).
- Chat Rooms by Message Volume: Chat rooms with the highest number of posted messages by the team (most active spaces).
Initiative and Ownership Section
What the team creates and owns, and how they collaborate.
- Created Items by Type: Count of documents, meetings, events, and chat rooms created or initiated by the team.
- Most Popular Documents: Documents ranked by total interactions (views, edits, comments, downloads) involving the team.
- Created Items by Activity Label: Documents, meetings, events, and chat rooms grouped by activity label.
- Top Recurring Events and Meetings: Recurring meetings and events by activity label (how the team allocates time to recurring work).
- User Activity on Resolving: Documents where the team resolved comments or suggestions (collaboration and follow-through).
- Doc Review Count: Document revision and review count before final version (collaborative editing depth at team level).
Schedule and Punctuality Section
- Work Location Breakdown: How much time the team spends working from home versus in the office.
- Workday Alignment with Team: Average workday start and end times for the team.
- Planned vs Ad Hoc Meetings: Balance between planned and ad-hoc meetings organized by the team.
Time Management Section
- Working Time Allocation by Label: How the team's working time is allocated across activity labels (meetings, documents, chat, etc.).
Independent Work Section
- Created and Owned Files: Total files the team has created and currently owns in Google Drive.
- Shared Files: How many files the team has shared internally and externally.
- Time Spent on Activities: Time the team spends on independent tasks (email, chat, document work, etc.).
Attendance Section
- Activity Heatmap: Daily activity as a grid (each square a day, color intensity = activity level) for the team.
- Scheduled Meet Attendance Rate: How regularly the team attends scheduled meetings.
- Workday Alignment with Team: Average workday start and end times for the team (same metric as in Schedule).
Work-Life Balance Section
- Days with Extended Work Hours: Workdays highlighted when the team's hours extend beyond the norm.
- Breaks During Work Indicator: Daily grid showing whether breaks were taken during the workday (team pattern).
Policy Compliance Section
- Docs Shared Externally by Label: Number and types of files the team shared outside the organization, by activity label.
- Docs Shared Externally: How many documents were shared with people outside the organization by the team.
AI Adoption and Usage Section
- Invocations by App: How frequently the team uses Gemini across Workspace apps and estimated collective time per app.
- Invocations by Action: Team Gemini usage by action type, with comparison to previous period.
- Power AI Users: Users who actively use Gemini AI (invocation counts, time, comparisons) within or relative to the team.
Step-by-Step: Using Work Patterns (Team Performance Review)
- Open Work Patterns: Go to /work-patterns/.
- Select team and period: Choose the Org Unit (team) and Period (e.g. Month, Quarter).
- Scroll by section: Use Communication, Initiative & Ownership, Schedule, Time Management, Independent Work, Attendance, Work-Life Balance, Compliance, and AI to review team metrics.
- Compare teams (if applicable): Change org unit to compare different teams on the same period.
- Drill to employees: For individual context, switch to /performance-review/ and open the Employee view for specific team members.
