Journal

Field notes

These notes come from sittings with people teams who already run an employee experience app. They are not launch speeches for a new product. Read them if you are about to close a pulse, brief a plant, or look at week six after go-live.

A woman standing and speaking with colleagues in a workplace

The first sixty days after an employee experience app launch

Week one is a town-hall spike. Week six is the quieter record: password resets, missing contractor rosters, and the canteen QR code nobody passes on night shift.

9 June 2026

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Reading comment themes without turning every remark into a programme

Comment boxes in an employee experience app fill with canteen, parking, and roster notes. Volume and sample rules matter more than a new initiative for each sentence.

19 May 2026

A person reviewing papers and a notebook at a desk

Recognition-app likes are a poor stand-in for how a team is faring

A busy recognition feed in an employee experience app can mean a few managers learned the habit, not that quieter teams have been seen. Read who gives, who receives, and who never appears.

28 April 2026

Hands writing in a notebook beside a cup of coffee

A forty percent pulse response is a picture, not a verdict

When four in ten people answer a pulse in an employee experience app, the useful work is naming who is missing — by shift, language, and reminder path — before anyone treats the score as the plant’s mood.

12 March 2026