Workload check-in

Every Friday, each teammate gets a soft nudge: How heavy is this week? Four options, all emoji, all one tap — 🌤 Light, ⛅ Balanced, 🌧 Heavy, ⛈ Overloaded. That's the whole interaction. No form, no percentage, no project selector.

The answer is stored on the employee's own profile. They can change it any time during the week; only the last answer counts.

An 8-week sparkline of your own answers — a single line moving between the four levels. Future weeks are dashed circles waiting to be filled. The sparkline is private to you.

Managers see a team aggregate only — how many people landed in each bucket per week, and the trend. They never see who answered what.

Pulse HR does not track hours. There are no allocations, no project codes, no percentages, no commesse, no timesheets. If your team needs hour-level capacity planning, keep using the tool you already have — Harvest, Toggl, Tempo, Float, your spreadsheet. Workload check-in answers a different question: does this team feel okay right now?

The old allocation-driven heatmap is parked. The check-in is the whole feature.

A four-option weekly question gets answered. A 12-field timesheet doesn't. The signal is fuzzy on purpose — over 8 weeks the shape of a person's sparkline tells you more than any precise hour count, because it's the only number that captures both objective load and how they're carrying it.

Pair Workload with Status Log and the team aggregate Pulse, and you have a continuous read on team wellbeing that takes 60 seconds per person per week.