'Check-in' is the feature formerly known as 'Happiness Coach'. We've renamed the feature because it's simply more accurate: we're not trying to coach you on being happy. Our goal is to help you track how work's going week on week, so you can better understand what drives (and drains) you.
🩺 What is Check-in?
Check-in gives your team a short weekly moment to reflect on how their work felt, and gives leaders anonymised, aggregated data on what's actually affecting team health.
It's built directly into Streamtime's To Do list, because how people feel about their work is inseparable from the work itself. No separate platform. No login. No friction.
Check-in is included in all full Streamtime subscriptions at no additional cost.
🎚️ How to turn it on
All subscribers have the Weekly Check-in feature enabled as part of Streamtime. Subscribers, and those who have both the feature and admin permission access, can choose to enable or disable the Check-ins for any or all team members.
Navigate to Settings > Team Members in your Streamtime account
Selecting the team member you want to enable 'Check-in' for
Check Submit Weekly Check-Ins and/or View Team Weekly Check-In Summary
🦸🏽 What it aims to do
Check-in aims to wrap people insights alongside financial metrics to build a more complete picture of business health. Streamtime believes that profit shouldn't be the only measure of a healthy business, and we want to drive a new vision in our product by:
Helping provide business leaders with a more holistic view of not just their business but their people.
Via a low friction, embedded into daily practices workflow.
Ensuring positivity and transparency are key positioning - at all times we want it to be clear what the data will be used for and who will see it. Where possible, the language used will be of a positive nature.
While allowing control over one's own data. Team members need to be fully aware of who sees the data and what the data will be used for.
📋 How it works: The weekly check-in
At the end of each working week, an additional To Do appears for team members with Check-in enabled. The whole thing takes under a minute.
Step 1: Drag to Done
The To Do appears asking "What was this week like?" Team members drag it onto the emoji that best matches how they felt at work that week.
Step 2: Confirm and add context
The team member will then be met with the option to provide additional information.
Slide between different faces to find a nuanced place of how they're feeling.
What made the team member answer how they did. The options are common statements relating to work satisfaction drivers. They're based on the core framework behind the SMART work design model, developed by Professor Sharon Parker at the Future of Work Institute. Certain statements will lend themselves to different dimensions of work design, over time, giving team members a way of mapping what drives them and what drains them at work.
Ability to select a particular job that factored into their decision. If a particular piece of work drove their response, here's where they can specify it. It's optional, but helps build the bigger picture.
Notes that contributed to the week. The team member can choose to add a specific comment that will not be seen by anyone else in their organisation. This appears in their personal journal, and is completely private.
Step 3: Submit — you're done.
The response is logged privately. Nothing is shared with leaders or admins at an individual level.
👀 What team members see
Each team member has a personal dashboard showing their own Check-in history: their scores over time, the SMART pillars they've flagged, and any jobs they've linked. This is private to them.
Nobody else in the organisation can see an individual's responses, notes, or job links.
👀 👀 What leaders and admins see
Team members with Team Weekly Check-In Summary permission receive a weekly wrap email with aggregated, anonymised team results. They also see team-level insights in the Streamtime dashboard:
Overall team mood trends over time, mapped against logged time
Which SMART pillars are trending positively or negatively across the team
Which jobs or project types are associated with higher or lower team energy
A comparison of individual scores versus team average (anonymised)
Individual responses, emoji selections, notes, and job links are never visible to anyone other than the person who submitted them.
🔍 Privacy and data principles
Check-in was built with transparency and individual control at its centre:
Individual responses are always private to the person who submits them
Team-level data shown to leaders is aggregated and anonymised, never linked to individual names
Team members are always informed about what data is captured and who can see it
Individuals have full control over their own data
🙋 What's in it for me?
If you're a leader or business owner: You already have a sense of when team energy is low or when something's off. Check-in gives you the signal behind the feeling: which types of work are generating energy, which are depleting it, and how that maps to what your team is actually doing. Combined with Streamtime's existing financial and capacity data, you get a more complete view of your business. Use it to make better decisions about workload, client mix, and how you structure your team's week.
If you're a team member: You're already in the To Do screen logging time. Check-in takes 30 seconds and gives you a running record of how your work has felt over time - what energised you, what drained you, which projects to watch. Your responses are private. The more people participate, the better picture your leaders have to make changes that benefit the whole team.
？FAQ
What happened to the Happiness Coach?
Check-in replaces the Happiness Coach. It's been updated and renamed as part of Streamtime Signals. Your historical data is preserved and mapped to the primary statements linked to each pillar.
Why do I select 'Interesting Work' but the bar graph shows me 'Stimulating'?
Each SMART Work Pillar corresponds to a couple of options that the team member can select when submitting their score. These statements are derived from real world examples, so they're easier to connect to the everyday. The bar graphs group all statements based on their overarching SMART Work pillar, so that teams can understand how their day to day aligns with good work design framework.
Selecting 'Unrelated to Work' tells Streamtime that work isn't the cause of the positive or negative check-in score.
A quick reference for how these statements match to pillars is below:
SMART Work Pillars + Related Statements
Stimulation | Interesting work / Boring work / Creative challenge |
Mastery | Felt productive / Felt unproductive / Had focus time / No time to focus |
Agency | Felt in control / Didn't feel in control / Had autonomy / Too many meetings |
Relational | Client interaction / Team support / Manager support / Manager expectations |
Tolerable Demands | Balanced workload / Overbooked / Difficult deadline / Busy but manageable |
Excluded | Unrelated to work |
Can I turn off Check-in for specific team members?
Yes. You can enable or disable Submit Happiness Reports per team member at any time via Team Members.
Can a team member see the team-level data?
Only if they've been given the View Team Happiness Summary permission. Submit and view permissions are independent, so a team member can check in without seeing team trends.
Are my responses really private?
Yes. Individual responses, emoji selections, SMART pillar choices, notes, and job links are visible only to the person who submitted them. Leaders see aggregated and anonymised trends only.
Does Check-in cost extra?
No. It's included in all full Streamtime subscriptions.
🌌 Productive Wellbeing - what's next
Discover how creative businesses can balance profit and people by embracing data-driven wellbeing, sustainable practices, and a healthier future. Head to our blog to hear from Michael, Head of Productive Wellbeing, on overarching strategy and what to expect in Streamtime in the upcoming months.
What's the upshot? We're looking to show you insights that help you and your business become healthier and happier by ensuring that the team's internal perception of happiness matches the happiness reported. As time goes on, we'll expand on this to help you assess projects and companies by more than just financial metrics through additional reporting.