Essential Insights Executive Summary Report

Unlock Key Digital Work Analytics for Smarter Business Decisions

Table of Contents

1. What is the Essential Insights Executive Summary Report
2. Accessing the Essential Insights Executive Summary Report
3. What's Included in the Report?

The Essential Insights Executive Summary Report provides a high-level snapshot of digital work analytics, helping you and your customers gain clarity on business operations, productivity, and efficiency.

With the ability to generate reports for any month using historical data, this feature makes it easy to identify trends, optimize workflows, and uncover opportunities for improvement. Whether you’re tracking team engagement, assessing tool usage, or looking for ways to enhance performance, the report delivers essential insights in a clear and actionable format.

Accessing the Essential Insights Executive Summary Report  

To generate the Essential Insights Executive Summary Report, follow these steps:

1. Log into your Produce8 account.

2. Open the Sidebar Menu by selecting the menu button in the top left corner.

3. Navigate to Account Metrics. This will take you to the Summary page.

4. Select Get your Executive Summary!.
   
   
5. Choose the month you want to generate the report for.
   
   

Once selected, the report will generate based on available historical data, providing key insights to help you and your customers make informed decisions.

What's Included in the Report?

The Essential Insights Executive Summary Report is structured to provide a clear, data-driven view of digital work trends, helping organizations track productivity, collaboration, and technology usage. Below is a breakdown of each section and what you’ll find inside the report.

Company Overview

The Company Overview page provides a high-level snapshot of work-life balance, focus, and collaboration trends across the organization. This page is divided into two sections:

Quality of Work Life

This section examines key metrics related to employee working hours, focus, and sentiment to help organizations monitor work-life balance and overall engagement.

1. Working Hours

• Average working hours per person per day, with comparisons to previous periods.
• Breakdown of employees by work duration:
  • Under 7 hours
  • Between 7-9 hours (recommended range)
  • More than 9 hours (potential burnout risk)
• Percentage of employees working beyond 9 hours per day and whether this has increased or decreased.
• Weekly working hour trends to track patterns over time.

2. Focus & Digital Intensity

• Focus Score – The percentage of time spent in uninterrupted, focused work.
• Digital Intensity Score – The proportion of time spent actively engaging with work apps.
• Context Switching – How often employees shift between applications, which can indicate distractions or workflow inefficiencies.
• Comparison to previous periods – Is focus improving or declining?

3. Workday Sentiment

• Average sentiment score (1-5) for the selected timeframe.
• Breakdown of sentiment responses:
  • Percentage of employees reporting low sentiment (1-2)—potential signs of stress or dissatisfaction.
  • Percentage of employees reporting neutral sentiment (3)—neither strongly positive nor negative.
  • Percentage of employees reporting positive sentiment (4-5)—indicating good workdays.
• Trends in sentiment over time—Is team morale improving or declining?
• Participation rates—How many employees are engaging with sentiment tracking?
  
  
  

Collaboration Time

This section examines meetings and calls to provide insight into how employees collaborate.

4. Meetings

• Total time spent in meetings per person (daily, weekly, monthly).
• Breakdown of meetings by type:
  • Internal meetings
  • External meetings
  • Large group vs. small group meetings (e.g., 1:1 vs. 3-5 people vs. 6+ people).
• Recurring meeting percentage – Helps identify whether meetings are repeating too frequently.

5. Video Calls

• Total time spent in video calls per person.
• Breakdown of call activity across different applications.
• Comparison to previous months – Are employees spending more or less time on video calls?
  
  
  

App Usage

The App Usage page provides insights into which applications employees use most and how interaction patterns change over time.

Top Apps

This section helps organizations understand where employees are spending their time in digital tools.

6. Time in Apps & App Interactions

• Most-used applications based on total time and interactions.
• Newly discovered applications – Identifying new tools that employees have started using.
• Breakdown of app usage trends – Which apps are seeing increased or decreased engagement?
• Unique users per app – How many employees are actively using each tool?
  
  
  

Top App Categories

This section groups apps into categories such as Communication, Productivity, Sales, AI, and Documentation, showing:

7. Time in App Categories

• Total time spent per category.
• Percentage increase or decrease compared to previous periods.
• Which categories are dominating work time?
  
  
  

Department-Level Insights

The Department Overview page provides a breakdown of digital work trends across different teams, allowing organizations to compare productivity, collaboration, and focus patterns by department.

Digital Work Patterns by Department

• Average working hours per person per day across each department.
• Sentiment trends by department – Identifying which teams have the highest or lowest sentiment scores.
• Focus and Digital Intensity comparisons – Which departments maintain higher focus scores?
• Time in meetings and calls per department – Are some teams spending significantly more time in meetings than others?
  
  
  

Deep Dive Sections 

The Deep Dive sections provide a more detailed view of specific metrics over time, offering trend insights that help identify patterns, areas for improvement, and opportunities for intervention.

Deep Dive —Working Hours

• Trend chart of average working hours per person per day
• Weekly average working hours across the selected timeframe
  
  

Deep Dive – Workday Sentiment

• Trend chart of average sentiment per person per day
• Daily breakdown of sentiment scores
• Percentage of responses rated 1-2, 3, and 4-5, with comparison to previous periods
  
  

Deep Dive — Focus 

• Trend chart showing average per person per day values for:
  • Digital Intensity
  • Focus Score
  • Time in Focus Sessions
    
    

Deep Dive — Collaboration Time

Scheduled Time in Meetings

• Trend chart of average meeting time per person per day
• Separation of Internal vs. External Meetings 
• % increase or decrease in meeting time compared to the previous period
• average meeting participation breakdown:
  • 1:1
  • 3-5 participants
  • 6+ participants
    
    

Deep Dive — App Categories

• Top 5 app categories by average time per person and average interactions
• Comparison to previous periods to highlight trends
• Highlights:
  • Most used category
  • Category with highest increase
  • Category with largest decrease
    
    

Deep Dive — Time in Video Calls

• Trend chart of average time in video calls per person per day
• Additional chart showing average time in calls per person by collaboration tool (Zoom, Teams, Slack)
  
  

Deep Dive — Challenges

• Total number of active Challenges
• Breakdown of:
  • Account-wide Challenges 
  • Public-wide Challenges 
  • Private Challenges
• Participation rate by Challenge type (unique participants / total active users)
• List of active Account-wide and Public Challenges with number of participants

The Essential Insights Executive Summary Report offers a comprehensive yet easy-to-digest view of digital work trends, empowering organizations to make informed decisions, improve workflows, and enhance employee well-being.

By measuring key areas like working hours, focus, sentiment, collaboration, and technology use, organizations can gain clear, actionable insights to optimize operations while fostering a healthier, more productive work environment.