Employee Performance Evaluation | Performance Goals

December ’10 release delivers more employee performance power, more visibility into team, department and company goals, and breakthrough user-experience

San Francisco, Calif. -December 16, 2010 -

Company News

● WorkSimple, the company that defined results-driven performance management and continues to lead innovation in the employee performance management industry, announced the immediate availability of its December ’10 release. The release marks yet another chapter in WorkSimple’s history of consistent Talent Management software evolution.

● December ’10 delivers enhancements to WorkSimple’s Goal Management, Automated Performance Reviews, Business Performance Reporting, and User Interface.

Product Detail for Employees:

WorkSimple’s latest release gives employees a clear and consistent way to create new individual goals, and identify company and department strategic objectives.

• Performance Dashboard: A single place for the workforce to view department activity, goal progress, team updates, or anything else that can impact an employee performance.

• Goal Management: An employee-centric solution that lets employees create, track, and share comments on goals and contributions that impact the business.

• Goal Tracking: Every update is recorded in WorkSimple’s “Goal History” tab, which shows performance behaviors on metric-based or date-driven goals.

● Goal Check-ins: WorkSimple’s Check-in functionality allows employees and managers to update on-going goals based on their schedule with a single mouse click.

● My Groups & Departments: An intuitive overview of department- or workgroup-related performance information in an actionable view of the data that matters to each individual.

● Goal Libraries:A gallery of metric-based or target goals, tailored for various industries, business functions and processes to fit your team, department and company.

Product Detail for HR Managers & Executives

WorkSimple aggregates relevant performance information on a single platform for leadership. This empowers faster action taking and decision-making.

• Results Driven Performance Review: Auto-populated with the employees’ goals for any given date period. Making performance reviews fact-based and painless.

• Anytime Performance Review: WorkSimple enables managers to initiate a performance review for any given date period. Each time an employee completes a goal, the combined self and manager score contributes to the performance review score.

• Goal Metrics & History: Relevant metrics employees, manager, and department goal progress, status updates, check-ins, and progress of a goal over time.

• Company-wide Performance Reporting: Simpler visibility on the progress of employee, team, and department performance results and review activities, review scores, open and completed goals, and goals which were not achieved by individual, job role or department.

WorkSimple Commentary

“WorkSimple is committed to a monthly new feature release schedule that will deliver an unprecedented pace of innovation to the Talent Management industry,” said Morgan Norman, CEO and co-founder of WorkSimple. “Employee Performance measurements and reviews need to be fact-based—but they don’t need to be painful. We’re finding that employees perform better when they have clarity into department and company goals, objectives and values. With WorkSimple, every employee knows what is expected of them and what they can expect from the company in a platform they enjoy using.”

“Traditional performance reviews based on job competency can be disengaging and unmotivating for the workforce. We’re finding that what employees and managers truly want to talk about is progress against goals. Moreover, they are curious about what other departments and peers are working on and how their work impacts the success of their colleagues,” said Ben Moore CTO and co-founder of WorkSimple. “Each monthly release will contains major updates to ensure our future of the talent management space.”

WorkSimple’s platform can be deployed in seconds and is up and running in a single day without long implementation times. Employees can get up and running with very little training. By providing managers and employees across all departments with the ability to collaborate on common goals and review work in real time, teams, departments and small and midsized businesses now have an exciting and affordable solution for results-based performance reviews.

Product Pricing & Availability

● WorkSimple Goal and Performance Management is currently priced at $60 per user, per year and is available directly through WorkSimple or through certified partners.

Additional Resources

Website: www.getworksimple.com
Product tour: www.getworksimple.com/features/platform-overview

About Results-Driven Performance Management

Results-Driven Performance Management is the new way to improve employee and company performance. The concept is to engage employees and put the focus on goals and targets. Results-Driven Performance Management combines the power of talent management software, goal management, and recognition, offering automated performance reviews. Results-Driven Performance Reviews are emerging as the most important innovation in the Talent Management Software category in a decade.

About WorkSimple

WorkSimple combines information from goal management, goal progress, social recognition, and performance activity into and a simple automated performance review. WorkSimple’s on-demand platform changes the way employees, managers, and businesses manage and view performance by offering a simple breakthrough user experience. Our affordable approach provides real-time insight into employee, department, and company productivity within weeks of deployment. WorkSimple’s customers are up and running the same day and often recognize 200% ROI within the first 30 days. For more information, visit www.getworksimple.com