Friday, 20th February

AI Topics automatically surface and summarize emerging, company-specific topics and themes from employee feedback. This feature provides granular insights into an organization’s unique dynamics, enabling leaders to identify trends, issues and opportunities for improvement and take informed action. This is a core enhancement to our current Topics feature, and is subsequently set to replace Keyword and Semantic Topics. This update will roll out in phases over 10 business days.

With this update, we:

Upgrade our technology
by generating topics from your unique comment data, clustering them by meaning, and increasing overall comment coverage. We will also use AI summarization within each topic to reduce analysis time.
Increase actionability
by enriching topics with new data points (Example: % of participants, key segments affected) to guide attention to the right areas. We will highlight the AI topics that need attention. Example: the most mentioned, most negative, or most positive.
Enable analysis across time
by grouping topics into broader Themes, allowing you to track feedback and sentiment trends across multiple survey rounds.
Replace existing topic types
by deprecating Semantic Topics and Keyword Topics and introducing AI Topics as the new standard. We will also replace highlighted topics with highlighted AI topics.

We enhance the configuration options for General Access groups, enabling you to grant members access to employee survey data at the driver level rather than only at the question set level.

When setting permissions for a General Access group, you can now select individual Drivers within a Question Set to grant access.Prior to this update, access could only be granted by selecting the entire Question Set, which granted access to all drivers and questions within it.

Workday Peakon Employee Voice will transition 24 long-tail locales to a machine translation workflow to manage content volumes.

We will use machine translation for these 24 locales, which were previously human-translated:

Azerbaijani
Bengali
Burmese
Catalan
Faroese
Flemish
Gujarati
Hindi
Icelandic
Kannada
Lao
Latvian
Macedonian
Malayalam
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian
Punjabi
Tagalog
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu
Xhosa
Zulu

Workday Peakon updates the display of specific terminology in the English (United States) locale to ensure a consistent user experience.

We now consistently use sentence casing for these question set titles throughout Peakon:

Diversity and inclusion
Transformation and change

We introduce AI Custom Drivers, a generative AI feature that assists administrators in creating tailored survey questions by analyzing measurement goals in plain text.

You can now describe a specific measurement goal in plain text (Example:

"burnout risk"

or

"innovation culture"

) to receive automated question recommendations.

The feature uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to perform semantic analysis on your input, mapping your goals to the most relevant questions within both the standard Workday Peakon library and your company’s custom questions.

The system proposes a curated list of 3-5 questions that best match your intent. You have full control to review, accept, edit, or reject any suggestions before they are included in a custom driver.

You can access this functionality when creating or editing custom drivers within the

Administration

>

Survey

Questions

settings.

We introduce custom drivers, a new way for administrators to create, manage, and view tailored company themes or initiatives directly in Workday Peakon.

You can now group survey questions from different question sets that measure a specific strategic theme or initiative, giving you greater flexibility in how you listen to and analyze employee feedback.

You can now create custom drivers by combining existing standard Workday Peakon questions and new custom questions. This lets you measure your choice of strategic topics, such as

Manager Effectiveness

,

Company Culture

, or

Psychological Safety

, using questions from multiple Workday Peakon question sets.Custom drivers support any 0-10 scaled question from across the product.

Peakon aggregates these questions into a single driver score, which appears across the platform wherever driver results are shown, including Heatmaps, Curated Insights, driver pages, and the All Scores view.We also introduce new access control permissions for viewing and editing custom drivers.

Your Company question set is now renamed to “(Company Name)

Custom Company Drivers

”. This updated naming appears throughout the platform and is visible to anyone with access to the question set. Peakon rolls out this feature in phases. After you create or update a custom driver, scores may take a few minutes to populate across all segments and reporting views.

We will update the Finnish translation for the core Values question to provide a more natural and clear experience for employees responding to surveys in Finnish.

We update the Finnish translation for the question:

"Does your day-to-day experience of working here feel aligned to this value?"

.

Previous translation
:
"Tunnetko, että päivittäiset työkokemuksesi vastaavat tätä arvoa?"
.
New translation
:
"Miten hyvin päivittäinen työskentelysi täällä vastaa tätä arvoa?"
.