Home is where you land, and it answers two questions in that order: how is today shaped, and what should I do about it.
The two halves
The brief is the card at the top. Your greeting, today's band of daily actions, the assistant's one insight, your performance rings, and your achievements. It is about the day rather than about any particular piece of work.
Your work is everything below. The company feed on the left, and a rail on the right that changes depending on which stream you are looking at.
There is a hairline rule and a heading between them, and it is there so the eye reads brief above, work below without having to hunt for the boundary.
The greeting line
More is going on in that one line than it appears.
The time of day is yours, not the server's. Morning before noon, afternoon before five, evening after. The hour is resolved in the timezone you set in your profile rather than the one your browser reports, so travelling with a laptop still greets you correctly.
The clock respects your format. Twelve or twenty-four hour, from your preferences.
The city comes from your timezone. Dubai, Riyadh, Karachi. It reads warmer than an IANA string and it matches how hubs are actually talked about.
The end-of-day countdown is conditional. It appears only if you have set working hours and only while you are inside them. At eleven at night it says nothing, because "0h until end of day" is not information.
Personal and Company
One switch, top right, and it changes the whole bottom half.
Company is the default. It shows what the organisation is doing: the shared feed, the leaderboard, participation and sentiment.
That default is deliberate. A brand-new workspace has a company feed carrying a welcome post and a personal feed carrying nothing, and a screen that reads alive on day one is worth more than one that is technically about you.
Personal narrows to your own: your feed, your focus tasks, your numbers.
Most people settle on one and rarely switch. Which one says something about the job: individual contributors tend to live in Personal, anybody with a team tends to live in Company.
What each rail carries
| Stream | Right rail |
|---|---|
| Personal | Focus priority, then your KPIs |
| Company | Leaderboard, participation and sentiment, then your KPIs |
Your KPIs appear in both, because they are yours regardless of which feed you are reading. In a brand-new account, focus priority also appears in the Company rail, so the first days show the work waiting rather than an empty leaderboard.
What is deliberately not here
No navigation. The sidebar and the search box do that. A home screen that is mostly links is a menu with a greeting on it.
No queue. Things that want you live in the Cockpit. Home tells you the shape of the day; the Cockpit tells you the contents. Duplicating one into the other produces two lists that disagree by mid-morning.
No configuration. The setup nudge links to the setup surface rather than embedding it, and it disappears once the foundations are done.
The Atlas tile
At the very bottom sits one link to the capability map, which is the browsable index of everything the platform can do.
It used to sit between the brief and the work, and it was moved to the tail on the reasoning that new users still find it there while daily users never scroll past it. That is the right trade: a discovery surface should be findable, not prominent.
Reading it in ten seconds
The pass that works, and it is genuinely quick.
The band under the greeting tells you what today holds: whether you are clocked in, your next meeting, how many tasks are done.
The insight tells you the one thing the assistant thinks is worth knowing, with a button that goes there.
The rings tell you whether the week is going well, and are safely ignored on a busy morning.
The feed tells you what everybody else did.
The rail tells you what to do next.
That is the whole screen. Anything requiring more than a glance belongs on a different one, and every element here links through to where the real work happens.
How often it refreshes
Different parts move at different speeds, which is worth knowing before you sit watching one.
The clock updates every half minute. Minute resolution is enough for a greeting, and it means the end-of-day countdown ticks over without the page feeling busy.
The feed is live. New items arrive without a refresh.
The rings refetch when you complete a task, so credit is visible immediately rather than tomorrow.
Everything else loads once when you open the page. The rings in particular are deliberately deferred so the feed and the composer are usable first, which is why they occasionally fill in a moment after everything else.
Why it is laid out this way
Two constraints shaped the page and both are visible once pointed out.
The brief is one card, not four. Greeting, day band, insight, setup nudge and rings all live inside a single container with one border and one shadow. They could have been separate cards and it would have read as a dashboard of unrelated widgets rather than as a composition about your morning.
The page is capped in width and clipped horizontally. A wide widget cannot push the whole page sideways, which is a defence against one badly-behaved element making the entire screen scroll left and right.
Where it fits
Home is for orientation. Cockpit is for triage, Plan is for execution, and the search box is for finding.
The honest description is that Home is the screen you look at for ninety seconds at the start of the day and glance at when you come back from lunch. It is not built to be lived in, and the sections that follow explain each part of it in turn.
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