Lattice Product Updates

Slack recently updated interactions with apps to use modal inputs rather than dialog boxes. This is a subtle change for users, but for us, it unlocks a lot more opportunities for more complex and interesting user actions between Lattice and Slack. So far, we've updated the feedback interaction so that you can now tag multiple values to feedback right from Slack.

Start measuring eNPS using pulse surveys! eNPS is your north star metric for employee experience. It asks the question, “How likely are you to recommend our company as a place to work?” on a scale of 0–10.

These talking points now show up in the 1:1 meeting with a new avatar now instead of the manager’s face. This makes it much more clear which agenda items are unique to this 1:1 and which are company-wide talking points.

We've added support for more default HRIS attributes to be added to Lattice via custom attributes for the Namely, Zenefits, and Rippling integrations

Lattice Grow gives employees a clear roadmap for their career growth at your company. And with Lattice Grow tied to Performance, managers and employees have the tools to have productive career conversations.

Until now, we used an algorithm to automatically focus on the face in an uploaded profile picture, or avatar. For most, this worked fine. But for some, their avatars were strangely cut off or focused on the wrong area which was understandably frustrating. Now, when a user uploads an image, they can pan and zoom anywhere to find the perfect angle. Users can also edit their current avatar in the same way.

We've received a lot of helpful feedback about usability improvements for selecting engagement survey participants, and we're excited to announce a few significant updates. You can now add all employees to a survey quickly, or use filters (including custom attributes) to bulk select and add participants.

We've added a few improvements to make selecting participants for performance reviews much simpler. You can now add all employees to a review instantly, or use filters and custom attributes to bulk select and add groups of employees together.

As we have adjusted to our new work from home lives, it is harder to stay connected with each other, so we created Celebrations to bring back a bit of joy into the workday. With Celebrations enabled, you will see a new tab in the Company page where you can see new hires, anniversaries, and birthdays. And best of all, we help you start the celebration with some flair over their avatars.

Feedback is crucial to personal and professional growth. Now, we've made it easy to request feedback from up to 10 people in a single request in Lattice.

1:1s and Updates are now further connected by allowing you to add an employee's Update answer as a talking point for your next 1:1. This encourages conversations around sentiment scores, review progress, and celebrate wins together.

Now you can see the sentiment trend of your direct report over the past 4 possible updates rather than an all-time average. Sentiment scores now better reflect the present state, while all-time averages are still available in admin reporting.

Admins can now select to disconnect an individual employee when, for example, an HRIS sync accidentally created duplicate users.

The text editor is one of those utilities that holds everything together. It's an unsung hero, so to speak. Our team completely rebuilt the text editor from the ground up to make it even more heroic so you can have an even more seamless experience using Lattice.

With ad hoc 1:1s, you can now schedule a 1:1 meeting with anyone at anytime. You don't have to set a regular cadence, and they won't interrupt the regular 1:1s you have already set.

We've heard that lots of customers have been loving Office Party as a way to get to know everyone at their company. But in case the competition gets too heated, you can now turn off Office Party.

We've improved the user experience for creating API keys in a few helpful ways. It's now much easier to connect data to other systems with UserID and Goal relationships.

We've added a new review sharing option: "Only share feedback with reviewee's managers with reviewers' comments anonymized". Under this setting, reviewer feedback will be anonymous to both the reviewee and the manager. If the review uses private questions, Lattice will notify you about which questions will have different settings.

To give managers and employees a head-start on driving meaningful 1:1 conversations, you can now find a series of recommended talking points right in the 1:1s tool to add to your agendas. The recommended talking points have been gathered from researchers in organizational behavior and people leaders at some of today's most innovative companies.

Requesting external feedback has been especially helpful to companies with project-based relationships with clients. Now, you also have the ability to request feedback from a person outside your company with private + manager visibility. The external person answering the request will see the message “This will be shared with ___ and their manager”.

We simplified 1:1 shared notes by allowing both participants of 1:1s to see shared notes after they are written. No need to hit "Share" anymore, and notes are always auto-saved.

You are now able to select different deliverable types for upward and peer feedback. This enables more customization around how review feedback is shared based on the review to ensure that the right people are getting the appropriate feedback visibility.

Now you can add a custom attribute from Namely, Rippling, and Zenefits (not just BambooHR!). You can also now link an existing custom attribute to an HRIS attribute for all of our HRIS integrations.

We received feedback from customers that reviewing a 1:1 to complete it is confusing. We agree – the idea of completing a 1:1 like a task is strange! We've now removed the "Reviewed" functionality to streamline 1:1s.