What is 15Five?

15Five is a cloud-based performance management and employee engagement platform designed to help organizations improve employee performance, strengthen workplace culture, develop effective managers, and build highly engaged teams. Unlike traditional HR systems that focus primarily on annual performance reviews, 15Five promotes continuous employee development through regular feedback, structured manager conversations, weekly check-ins, goal tracking, engagement surveys, and data-driven coaching.

Built for growing businesses, remote teams, mid-sized organizations, and enterprise companies, 15Five enables HR professionals, managers, executives, and employees to collaborate throughout the employee lifecycle. By encouraging frequent communication and ongoing performance discussions, the platform helps organizations replace outdated annual evaluation models with continuous performance management that supports long-term employee growth and organizational success.

One of 15Five’s defining features is its weekly check-in system. Instead of waiting for formal quarterly or annual reviews, employees complete short weekly updates that allow managers to understand accomplishments, challenges, priorities, workloads, and employee sentiment. Managers gain continuous visibility into team performance while employees receive regular opportunities to communicate progress and request support.

Continuous feedback plays a central role within the platform. Employees and managers can exchange constructive feedback, coaching, recognition, and performance observations throughout the year rather than limiting conversations to scheduled review periods. This frequent communication helps employees improve more quickly while strengthening trust between managers and their teams.

One-on-one meeting management helps managers conduct productive conversations with employees through structured agendas, discussion topics, follow-up tasks, action items, career conversations, and development planning. Rather than relying on informal conversations, managers can consistently address employee concerns, career goals, performance expectations, and professional development during recurring meetings.

Performance management is built around continuous improvement rather than isolated evaluations. Organizations can design customized review cycles, competency frameworks, peer feedback processes, manager assessments, self-evaluations, and calibration workflows. These structured review processes create fair, transparent, and development-focused performance evaluations across departments.

Goal management enables organizations to align employee work with broader business objectives through Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and individual performance goals. Employees can monitor progress toward measurable objectives while managers track team alignment with organizational priorities. Goal visibility improves accountability while helping employees understand how their contributions support company success.

Employee engagement surveys provide organizations with insights into workplace satisfaction, leadership effectiveness, communication quality, collaboration, inclusion, and organizational culture. HR leaders can identify trends affecting employee morale while implementing initiatives that improve engagement and long-term retention.

Pulse surveys complement larger engagement surveys by collecting shorter and more frequent feedback from employees. Organizations gain continuous visibility into workforce sentiment rather than relying solely on annual engagement assessments. Regular feedback enables HR teams to identify issues early and respond before they affect productivity or retention.

Manager coaching is one of 15Five’s most distinctive capabilities. The platform provides managers with practical guidance, leadership recommendations, coaching resources, conversation prompts, and performance insights that help them become more effective people leaders. This emphasis on manager development differentiates 15Five from many traditional performance management platforms.

Employee recognition encourages a culture of appreciation by allowing peers and managers to celebrate achievements, acknowledge contributions, and reinforce organizational values. Regular recognition strengthens employee motivation, improves workplace relationships, and supports positive organizational culture.

Career development tools help employees define professional goals while collaborating with managers on long-term growth plans. Career conversations become structured around measurable development objectives, helping organizations improve internal mobility and prepare employees for future leadership opportunities.

Individual Development Plans (IDPs) provide personalized frameworks for employee growth. Employees and managers can establish learning objectives, identify required competencies, monitor development progress, assign training opportunities, and track career milestones through centralized development plans.

People analytics deliver valuable workforce insights into engagement levels, manager effectiveness, review completion, goal achievement, employee turnover, leadership performance, workforce development, and organizational health. HR teams use these analytics to improve people strategies while supporting evidence-based decision-making.

AI-powered insights help managers interpret employee feedback, summarize engagement survey results, identify workforce trends, recognize potential retention risks, and recommend coaching actions based on employee responses. Artificial intelligence reduces administrative effort while improving the quality of manager decision-making.

Talent reviews help leadership teams evaluate employee performance, leadership potential, promotion readiness, succession planning, and workforce capabilities. Managers collaborate through structured review sessions that identify high-potential employees while supporting long-term organizational planning.

Workflow automation reduces repetitive administrative work by automating performance review scheduling, reminder notifications, employee check-ins, survey distribution, manager approvals, coaching prompts, recognition workflows, and HR communications. Automation allows HR professionals to spend more time on strategic initiatives rather than manual administration.

15Five integrates with leading HRIS, payroll, communication, identity management, and productivity platforms including BambooHR, Rippling, Workday, Personio, ADP, Okta, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Greenhouse, Namely, UKG, HiBob, and numerous additional enterprise systems. These integrations synchronize employee information while maintaining consistent workforce data across business applications.

API access provides flexibility for organizations with customized HR technology environments, allowing developers to integrate 15Five with proprietary systems and automate additional workforce management workflows.

The mobile application enables employees and managers to complete weekly check-ins, participate in engagement surveys, provide recognition, monitor goals, review feedback, and manage one-on-one meetings from smartphones and tablets. Mobile accessibility supports hybrid and remote work environments while increasing employee participation.

Enterprise security includes encrypted cloud infrastructure, role-based access controls, secure authentication, audit logging, administrative management, privacy protections, and compliance controls that safeguard sensitive employee information while supporting global regulatory requirements.

15Five is trusted by startups, technology companies, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, educational organizations, nonprofit organizations, consulting firms, remote-first businesses, and enterprise employers seeking to improve employee engagement, manager effectiveness, and organizational performance.

As organizations grow, 15Five scales to support larger workforces, more advanced people analytics, enterprise governance, global review cycles, leadership development initiatives, expanded coaching programs, and increasingly sophisticated performance management strategies.

By combining continuous performance management, weekly check-ins, manager coaching, employee engagement, goal tracking, career development, people analytics, AI-powered insights, workflow automation, enterprise integrations, and talent management into one unified platform, 15Five enables organizations to build stronger leaders, improve employee experiences, increase workforce engagement, and create high-performing organizational cultures.