Employee Pulse Platform — Styleguide
Employee Pulse Platform
The pulse, the comments, and the actions that close the loop.

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Accent · anon#2E8A8A
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Stable#6A7682
Suppressed / destr.#9B2B2B

Type ramp

Display (score)
4.2 /5
42 / 600
H1
Round 4 closed Friday
30 / 600
H2
Your team's results
22 / 600
H3
Clarity dropped 0.4
18 / 600
Serif (comment)
"I'd like to know how decisions about my projects get made earlier, not after they're announced."
17 / serif
Body
Cohort below the anonymity threshold (5 respondents). Item-level comments cannot be displayed safely for this cell.
14 / 400
Mono
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13 / mono

Spacing scale

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8
12
16
24
32
48

Pulse scale (1–5)

Dimension component

Clarity
"I know how my work fits into the org's priorities."
3.6
−0.4 vs R3

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Not enough responses to show safely
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Pulses work best at 4–8 week cadence.
Minimum respondents per cohort to show item-level comments.

Badges

Trending up Needs attention Stable Anonymous Round open Action closed Overdue Suppressed

Alerts & toasts

Round 4 closed Friday
Response rate 76% across 14 cohorts. Manager dashboards unlock at 9am Monday.
2 cohorts below anonymity threshold
Sales-EU and Engineering-Platform had fewer than 5 respondents. Item-level comments suppressed.
3 action items overdue
From round 3. Reminders sent to owners with a 5-day grace window.
Action item created · "Run a quarterly priorities AMA" · due in 14 days

Table — Cohort rollups

CohortRespondentsManagerClarityTrend
Engineering — Platform12 / 14R. Park3.6−0.4
Engineering — Apps18 / 19K. Ohlsen4.1+0.2
Design8 / 10F. Trujillo4.4±0.0
Sales — EU3 / 4——Suppressed

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