WS allows us to provide specific, actionable feedback to our teammates. Managers and their team members are able to have deeper conversations by both working off of the same, objective data provided by the team members' peers.

Being able to have teammates be consistently reviewed by their peers every week by asking simple, specific questions, has made our ability to have detailed, objective performance reviews with teammates at any given time a key value addition to working on our teams.

It does not yet have the ability to be customized with company colors. I have requested a couple of custom features (which the WorkStory team is implementing on adding as I type).

I was looking for a 360 review software that 1) doesn't take more than a few seconds, 2) can be done completely within Microsoft Teams, 3) aggregates the data for our users to use/see immediately. Workstory hits on all the points above. Most of the challenging part of using the software is on the backend but they have a team ready to assist with this whenever needed.

Completing a 360 degree review can be a tedious process, especially if you have a large number of colleagues you work with. Workstory effectively removes the hassle out of the review process by drip feeding the questions one at a time. Being able to complete the questions fully within Microsoft Teams also helps reduce downtime for reviewers as they don't need to navigate into a separate platform to provide their feedback.

The backend or administrator view isn't great. It's not too intuitive in terms of where I'm supposed to go to view certain information. Adding/removing/modifying questions for multiple users can also be a bit of a hassle if I want to do it myself. Thank fully they've got an incredibly responsive team that helps with this process.

Getting some positive transparency feedback.

The idea that it can be used to measure your performance.

I like the real-time, immediate feedback.

If you are new to an organization, you are not going to have any reviews. And there could be more suggestions and recommendations about how to give objective and comprehensive feedback.

The features I like the most are that you don't need to monitor your account, the app prompts you when your feedback is needed. I also enjoy the ease of use and dashboard navigation.

The only con I have is the randomness of the questions. I think that if you had the option to choose which categories you would receive questions from it would be helpful and minimize the amount of "I don't know" answers you would receive.

So far its been very good. I would recommend to other small businesses.

WorkStory allows you to collect reviews of multiple employees over a longer period of time so that you're not cramming during review time.

The dashboard can be slightly clunky and I don't understand how to use the reporting feature.

Great! Nothing to really complain about

I like the kind of questions it asks, the fact that it works with Microsoft Teams, and I especially love the AI generation of summaries - I found mine to be very on point with what my colleagues think of me

The participation count when it sends me summaries of how much I participated before I can even complete the last few questions

I love to see feedback from my employees and see where my strengths/weaknesses are!

Sometimes I’m asked to review people within the company that I don’t know so I can’t give them an accurate review.

The surveys are ok. I'm not sure how relevant they are.

This feels somewhat like we're judging each other and I prefer not to do that.

I like how you can get performance updates from your team and can track

I recently just started using work story, so I don’t have anything bad to say about it at the moment.

Very happy with the product. Easy to use, well designed.

It gives you chance to complement Your colleagues

Nothing at all. It works very nicely. I can’t find any faults

Awesome Way to Encourage Coworkers and get Feedback

Nothing negative to report, it has been great so far.

I think WorkStory is great. Is is very easy to use and there is a lot of application. I think the hardest part is figuring out how do you apply the information that you received. There is a ton of data, and feedback. It can be hard to keep track and really figure out what you can do with all of these insights and ensuring that your managers and others are taking advantage of it. As such if you are using Workstory you for sure need to have someone who is staying up to date with it. Who is thoughtful enough to interpret the feedback, provide insights and to encourage others to use it.

I have not seen anything on market that does what WorkStory does. There are a lot of feedback programs out there but they take a lot of work and can be very distracting. I like how WorkStory integrates easily into Slack. Reviews can all be done in Slack, so no having to go into another program to do your review. I like how you can schedule reviews on a regular cadence and get prompted to give feedback with specific questions. It is also nice to go into their dashboard as an employee or manager and to see what people having been giving you for feedback. As a manager you can also see how your team is doing as well. The process of doing a review is very simple and really takes someone just a minute or two a week to fill out.

Workstory is great software. a couple of things that I think could be improved on 1) It can be hard to manage cadence and quantity of reviews. For instance, when a new hire joins the team you need to set them up to ensure that they are getting reviewed and are reviewing others. There is no way that I know of currently that shows you a nice summary of all employees and who they are reviewing and who is reviewing them without going into each individual profile. As such I track this offline. I do this because we want to ensure that people are not overloaded with reviews and I want something that easily shows me at a glance the quantity of reviews 2) Also when you set up the cadence you put down how often you want reviews to occur. There is no way to individualize this so if the cadence is every 2 weeks, if you have a manager who has 15 people assigned to them they would be doing 15 reviews whereas someone with only 2 reports assigned to them would be doing 2. 3) Also the system works/requires ratings. This can be both good and bad. For our team I have found that having ratings for reviews sometimes caused employees to become to fixated on the rating and less focused on the review. Also employees tended to rate employees higher because they didn't want to offend them 4) Also there is a ton of data. Sometimes it can be difficult to keep track of all of the feedback.

We're saving a ton of time and effort with WorkStory. From an operational perspective, my HR department and I don't have to spend hours managing the performance review process anymore - following up with team members to get theirs done. For managers, they can be much more effective in sharing targeted performance opportunities with their team members. For employees, they don't have to worry anymore about filling out forms for each other (we do 360 reviews) twice a year. More importantly, they can see how well they're doing throughout the year and work to improve themselves with the help of the team's feedback.

WorkStory is so easy to use because it works entirely through our Slack workspace. Our team simply answers one-off review questions as they come in, throughout the week - just as if they were chatting with another team member. Then, based on all of those answers, we can clearly see and share how well team members are performing throughout the year, rather than having to wait for performance reviews to take place.

I feel like the platform could benefit from having a more robust system for pulse surveys. We're able to take advantage of it now, sending various cultural questions to our team, but it would be nice to craft groups of questions at a time rather than one-by-one.

Support has been excellent! [SENSITIVE CONTENT] and his team are very responsive and have been open to our suggestions. Very happy with WorkStory!

We are a Microsoft Teams company and I love that WorkStory integrates seamlessly with Teams. Poll questions come through on a Teams Chat channel and allows users to quickly answer the question in just a couple of minutes.

I am hoping that we will eventually be able to customize the end of year/period reporting to easily pull in all of the comments for the period along with the summary ratings.

The team is fantastic! They respond within 12 hours (most the time sooner) are willing to walk anyone through any part of the process and the value of the tool is tremendous when compared to avoiding the damage you face with letting a bad culture develop and avoiding HR nightmares.

The ability to track employee performance over time allows me to have a record of key players and more importantly call out those who are not the right fit. Usually it is a struggle to gather enough documentation which further degrades the culture. This allows us to reward the over performers and get the bad eggs out asap.

Logging in and getting it connected to slack is a few too many steps. We have lots of people who speak Spanish and those who aren’t the best with technology in the restaurant industry. If there were only 1-2 that would be ideal but I understands making things extra simple is even harder. A Spanish translation would be amazing too!

Again, I think it's a wonderful service. I see it being implemented in my work and I know that my managers take the ratings very seriously and account for what is missing in our pre-shifts and focus points each week.

I love how it connects to Slack effortlessly. This helps as I am typically only on Slack for work and thus can simultaneously submit my daily or weekly WorkStory. The parameters are also extremely clear and easy to use. For my restaurant, we have clear values that we try to uphold as servers, and WorkStory was easily programmed to represent those and rate one another.I like the option of being anonymous as well as it allows upper management to potentially focus on and correct any behavior not up to our standards.

As a server using the software, I find it extremely easy to use. I know it took a bit to get me set up via Slack, but once I was, it was seamless. I think if it's not connected to an app such as Slack, the emails and constant signing in stopped me from actually giving feedback. Potentially making the sign and review process as seamless on the site/via reminder emails may incentivize other businesses that may or may not have the service connected to a group messenger such as Slack.

The most likable piece of WorkStory is how it's goal is to allow employees the ability to grow and improve their skills much sooner than a yearly or bi-annual review. With offering real-time feedback and a useful dashboard where you can see your scoring per category, it really gives you both a) validity in your own skills and performance and b) the ability to see what areas are a bit lacking so you can proactively improve your weak areas in a more timely fashion.

The hidden feedback. I have received a few negative notations over the duration we've tried this platform, and when hiding, it goes to your manager only and, if not received with the review, itself, can allow for negative feelings to harbor and grow and, as a result, decrease moral of either the employee, themselves or a greater being which, in the long run, could hurt the overall purpose of WorkStory and the reason for installation into a company.

Our review process has become much more streamlined thanks to WorkStory. We are able to use a new-aged method with more conventional ways to help better the progress made by those working for our organization.

Integration was simple and customized to our specific organization. The costs are very reasonable and help fill a role in the review process that can otherwise be time consuming and frustrating. The client relations are excellent. The way in which the software can be tailored to the client is robust and flexible.

Our main challenge thus far has been with employee engagement, but has slowly improved once familiarity is gained.

WorkStory (GetSpeedBack) has been a game changer in improving how our management team is providing constructive feedback to our team members on their skills and abilities. By answering randomized performance questions on a regular basis, we are able to provide support before a skill/knowledge gap becomes a liability and also provide authentic gratitude to those meeting and exceeding expectations, rather than waiting six months to a year to provide formal performance feedback. The software is easy to use, convenient for busy professionals, and was breeze to customize to our needs. Personally, I always dreaded the task of performance evaluations, but with WorkStory I look forward to answering a few questions weekly and using the insights regularly in 1:1 meetings.

Integrating WorkStory into our business processes was extremely easy. After adjusting some settings, we were able to find a frequency that satisfied our management team.

WorkStory has undoubtedly changed the game in feedback collection and analysis. It's a user-friendly interface and seamless integration with various platforms make it a go-to tool for our businesses It empowered our company to make data-driven decisions for improved employee satisfaction.

Workstory gave our team the hands-on approach we needed to capture relevant feedback in a more timely manner than yearly reviews

We ddi not have any issues, once we got everything setup

Quick and easy wait to leave and receive feedback. I think this is a huge improvement on our process as a company. Being able to easily leave realtime feedback cuts down on extra information that I need to keep track of.

The interface can be a little clunky. When a review comes in via email, it is not always clear whether clicking the score will submit the feedback or if it is required to click submit on the window that opens. When in the web application, missed reviews could just show at the top of the screen one at a time without having to open a different page. Would be nice to see some more positive feedback like a colored background on the feedback chart. e.g. scores of 60 or above are green, anything below is orange. To counteract the subconscious assumption that anything that scores below 90/100 needs improvement.

Once we spent time with the onboarding and the appropriate questions to ask and grouping different departments together to review people who they work with we were able to take a big step towards insightful data. We were able to have actionable data ready for us to give people during their yearly reviews. Peer reviewed feedback goes a long way compared to just the opinion of the boss.

I liked how it fits into the day to day as a quick question. Doesn't feel as time consuming. I like the options to leave anonymous feedback, you get better insights that way.

Still having trouble incentivizing people to leave accurate ratings and reviews on people and to do it consistently. Many of them just give 5 stars and the same comment for everyone.

Overall it has been a great experience! The team has been very helpful and responsive, including providing recommendations and taking feedback.

It's great that it is designed specifically to gather ongoing feedback in small snippets.

At times the use of the tool on the backend is not as intuitive as I would like, making it a little challenging to make changes or to look at the data the way I would like.

I like this software because its so easy to use and implement into the systems in place already. For example, we use slack at my organization and WorkStory actually can be put as an add-on so whenever you have a review to do they just message you! It's so easy to stay on top of. Not to mention you get to read reviews from your peers on different subject matters. This feedback is critical to either getting better at your job or getting recognition for hard work!

The only bad thing that I have encountered about this software is when someone new starts it will start asking you to review them, but if they have only been there a day or two there is nothing to review them on!