Lattice Product Updates

Last December, we launched the ability for admins & calibration session participants to take notes within our calibration tool. Now, managers will also be able to access those notes after calibration ends in their context panel! They’ll be able to see notes for their reports through both “you” and “teams” tabs. By including calibration notes in the manager context panel in performance reviews, managers can easily find and reference context from earlier parts of the review process and use that information to finalize written feedback.

After a review is launched admins can now edit questions in the Lattice platform instead of making a request through their CSM. Admins can now edit the question title, description, question response labels, along with changing the question visibility.

We have removed row limits on the size of the file that you can upload to assign employees to Grow tracks. Now, you can add all your employees to Grow tracks with just one file upload.

We’ve released pronouns in Manager Tools and Grow! As a part of Lattice’s commitment to building an inclusive platform, this feature will help users see teammate's pronouns when creating/updating/viewing 1:1s, Feedback, Updates, and Growth Areas.

Grow now allows you to assign custom role members to view the Grow tabs of employees in their target group. With this new permission, HRBPs can easily gain visibility into the Growth Areas of the employees whose managers they partner with.

With Exit Surveys, People Teams can not only measure the employee experience at every phase, but identify the parts of work life that lead to attrition. This is crucial not only because the Great Resignation presents short term challenges for companies to retain their employees, but long-term changes in what employees need from work.

Now, you can fully customize the status labels your company uses to measure and share OKR and goal progress to match your company’s existing vocab (default: “On track,” “Progressing,” and “Off track”) . Plus, you can also add definitions to each status to ensure everyone in your company is measuring progress by the same standard, creating consistency and accuracy within your program.

Employee development is critical for engaging and retaining your top talent, but it isn’t always easy to implement. With our new Individual Development Plan functionality, you’ll activate your entire company in an aligned development process that enables both long-and short-term career development.

As a part of Lattice's commitment to building an inclusive platform, we have added the ability to see team member’s pronouns during Reviews. In reviews, managers and employees completing reviews will be reminded of the reviewee’s pronouns.

Calibrations enable teams to run more consistent and equitable performance reviews. This month, we delivered a few enhancements to streamline calibration activities for admins. We’ve added more guidance about the types of data admins can export from calibrations, and added new fields to CSV exports to make it easier to leverage calibration data in reports built in other systems. We also improved the calibration experience by adding keyboarding controls when adding tags to reviewees.

As a part of Lattice's commitment to building an inclusive platform, we have added the ability to see team member’s pronouns when creating, updating, and viewing Goals.

Teams can now purchase and use Lattice OKRs & Goals as a standalone product to better support goal admins who may not sit directly within the HR function. This update has no effect on your current Lattice subscription or access to OKRs & Goals.

Job Architecture is the central framework used to align levels, people, and jobs across a company – and you can now configure elements of your Job Architecture in Grow. You’ll be able to seamlessly sync employees to Grow tracks, and if you’re planning to use our forthcoming Compensation product, you’ll be able to sync employees to both Grow tracks and Comp bands once Compensation has launched.

Admins can now add descriptions for each track level in a Grow track. This change makes it easier for you to ensure your employees can easily find the summary of expectations for their level in Grow.

We’ve created a new custom role with Group Admin permissions for creation and assignment. We also introduced bulk assignment for Groups through a swift and easy CSV upload.

Goal owners can now add and change start dates for each of their goals. This update gives your team the flexibility they need to smoothly manage their program by providing clear, up-to-date timelines.

Your new hires should feel like they belong from day one and Lattice’s new Onboarding Surveys help you deliver great new hire experiences. With automated Onboarding Surveys, People teams can not only measure but optimize the new hire experience for every single employee.

We’ve added new flexibility around the way you can order and group questions in review packets at the end of a cycle. Review questions can now be organized by question or by reviewer, making it easier for managers to use the review packet to guide conversations and for employees to digest review feedback.

We have introduced new UX/UI updates to both the org chart page and to org chart cards, including pronouns on cards for employees who have added pronouns, color-coded cards based on department, reporting chain details, horizontal and vertical orientation, and an updated Goals UI. We’ve also added the ability to download your org chart as an image, introduced employee search capabilities within the Org Chart, and made the Org Chart more discoverable with a link from both Home and Company pages.

Lattice is committed to building a more inclusive platform, and gender pronouns play an important role in creating a welcoming community for members of all gender identities. The "Pronouns" field in Lattice allows users to add their gender pronouns to their Lattice profile and let others know how to refer to them.

Now, when someone receives Praise in Lattice, employees can add Emoji reactions to celebrate their colleagues’ recognition and achievement.

Now, when reviewees fall between groups, scores, promotions, or just need extra attention, calibration tags are an easy way to add structured data for sorting/filtering, so you can easily manage the next steps or flag outliers. This can help with retention risk and promotion situations.

Historically, cross-functional teams and sub-departments have struggled with goal setting in Lattice because our goal types didn't reflect where they sit in the company. We just had 3 goal types— Individual, Department, and Company. Now, with the Group goal types, this allows these teams to be met where they are and allow them to set goals at the appropriate level.

Calibration notes allow admins or session participants to add context, capture meeting discussion, and document final scoring decisions on an individual without having to leave Lattice, which increases the risk of data exposure. Notes can only be seen within the calibration session and won’t appear in the context panel or anywhere else in Lattice (although this is something we are considering in the future). Super admins/calibration admins can grant permissions to session participants to add/view notes.