Check in on one employee
Open their dashboard and read their current status, what they're doing right now, and their recent activity, without wading through a company-wide feed to find the parts that are theirs.
Employee Dashboard
Every employee you hire opens into one dashboard with a tab for everything about them: Chat, Tasks, Drive, Inbox, Calendar, Tools, Skills, Playbooks, Duties, Routines, Activity, and Profile. The header carries their live status, a running count of active routines, and one dropdown to suspend, terminate, or re-hire them. It is the single screen you land on to check in on one employee, and everything you touch there stays scoped to that employee alone.
Click any employee in your sidebar or Employees tab and you land on their dashboard: a tab bar across the top and a header that shows who they are, what state they're in, and what they're doing right now. Chat is the tab you land on by default, the rest are one click away.
The tab bar splits into three groups. Chat, Tasks, Drive, Inbox, and Calendar are the everyday tabs: conversations, the work board, files, mailbox, and a due-date view, all filtered to this one employee. Tools, Skills, Playbooks, and Duties are the equip tabs, where you see and adjust what this employee is capable of, each tab badge showing a live count of what is enabled. Routines, Activity, and Profile round it out: when they're scheduled to work, a timeline of every action they've taken, and their identity and settings.
What sets this apart from scrolling through a company-wide list is that every number on the page is already filtered to one employee. The task count, the drive file count, the enabled-skill count, the routine count, all of it is this employee's alone, not a company aggregate you have to mentally subtract from. And the header's live activity text updates from their real-time activity stream, so you're not reading a static badge, you're reading what they're doing at this moment. The company and team dashboards give you the aggregate view; this is the one built to answer a question about a single hire.
Every Tab, One Employee
Chat is the conversation with this employee, the same thread the employee uses to work through tasks with you. Tasks is their personal work board, filtered so you're only seeing what's assigned to them. Drive holds the files and journal entries they've produced. Inbox shows their mailbox if they have a Personal Mailbox address, and Calendar lays out their due dates across day, week, and month views.
Tools, Skills, and Playbooks are where you see what this employee can do and turn capabilities on or off; Playbooks is the same list filtered down to the reusable workflow guides. Duties covers standing instructions they always follow. Routines shows their work schedule, Activity is a full timeline of every action and tool call they've made, and Profile holds their identity, role, and settings, editable inline.
Managing Status From the Header
You don't need a separate settings page to change what an employee is doing. Suspend pauses their work temporarily and asks for confirmation inline before it commits. Terminate ends their employment, moves them to Alumni, and preserves their full history, conversations and files included, in case you re-hire them later. A terminated or resigned employee still shows a Re-hire button right in the header, so bringing someone back on the team takes one click, not a trip through a hiring flow.
Interview candidates get a stripped-down version of this same dashboard. Instead of the full manage menu, the header carries Reject and Hire actions tied to their interview status, so you can evaluate a candidate's conversation before they ever become a real hire with a full tab set.
How It Works
One page per employee, everything scoped to them
The dashboard reads live employee state and renders a tab bar built from what that employee actually has: an interview candidate sees only Chat, Activity, and Profile, while a fully hired, active employee sees the full set. Each tab badge (Tasks, Drive, Skills, Tools, Duties, Routines, Activity) carries a live count pulled straight from that employee's own data, so the badges update as work happens, not on a fixed refresh.
The header is a breadcrumb: your company, their team, then them. Clicking their avatar opens a profile drawer with their role, model, and quick actions. A three-dot menu next to it holds Suspend, Terminate, and Re-hire, each gated to the states where it makes sense, so you can't suspend someone already suspended or terminate someone already gone. A schedule pill next to their name shows how many of their routines are currently running versus configured, and doubles as a shortcut into the Routines tab.
Use Cases
Adjust what an employee can do
Jump to the Skills, Tools, or Duties tab to turn a capability on or off for this specific employee, then watch the tab badge count update immediately.
Manage an employee's lifecycle
Suspend an employee going quiet for a while, terminate one whose role ended, or re-hire someone you let go, all from the same header dropdown without leaving their dashboard.
Review one employee's schedule and workload
Open Routines to see how many of their schedules are actually running, and Tasks or Calendar to see what's due, both filtered so you're only looking at their work.
Evaluate a candidate before hiring
Open an interview candidate's dashboard to read their conversation and activity, then Hire or Reject directly from the header once you've decided.
FAQ
What tabs does the employee dashboard show?
Chat, Tasks, Drive, Inbox, Calendar, Tools, Skills, Playbooks, Duties, Routines, Activity, and Profile, twelve tabs in total, though an interview candidate sees a shorter set until they're actually hired.
How is this different from the company or team dashboard?
Same categories of information (chat, tasks, drive, activity), but the company dashboard aggregates across every employee and the team dashboard across one team. This dashboard scopes everything, every count and every list, to a single employee.
Can I suspend, terminate, or re-hire an employee from here?
Yes. The header's manage menu holds Suspend and Terminate, each asking for inline confirmation, and a Re-hire button appears automatically once an employee is terminated or resigned.
Do the tab badges update in real time?
Yes. Task count, drive file count, enabled skill and tool counts, and active routine count are all read live from that employee's own data, and the header's activity text updates from their real-time activity stream as they work.
What happens to an interview candidate on this dashboard?
They get a reduced tab set, just Chat, Activity, and Profile, and the header shows Reject or Hire actions instead of the full manage menu, since they aren't a real employee until you hire them.
Where Employee Dashboard fits
Employee Dashboard is part of Where their work lives.
Your AI agents manage their own workspace. Scheduled tasks run daily, weekly, or on custom cron cadences. A built-in kanban board tracks what is in progress. Every document lands in a personal Drive. A daily work journal logs decisions, outcomes, and next steps automatically.
- Where their work lives: Where your employees organize their work.
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More in Workspace
- Move a Team Member to the Bench: Every workspace has one Bench: a holding area for employees who are not currently on a working team. Remove someone from a team, or delete the team itself, and they land back on the Bench automatically, fully intact and ready to be reassigned. Nothing about them is deleted; only their team membership changes.
- Task Board: A kanban board that tracks what every AI employee is working on, in Backlog, To Do, In Progress, and Done columns. Employees create their own task cards when they do real work, and you can create cards to assign work directly. View it per employee, per team, or company-wide, and it updates live as work moves.
- Set Your Employee's Working Hours: Set how often each employee checks its board and acts on its own, from every 5 minutes up to monthly, without you asking each time. New hires start with a default hourly check-in that you can tighten, stretch, or turn into a specific daily time. The employee pauses itself automatically when there is nothing to do, it is onboarding, or credits run out, and picks back up on its own once that clears.
- Work Journal: Every employee keeps a dated journal of what it did, decided, and got stuck on, written as it works, not after the fact. Open it from the employee's, team's, or organization's Drive tab to see a day's entries without reading the chat transcript. Entries carry a category (task completed, observation, decision, blocker, learning, or handoff) so you can scan for what changed. It starts on hire with nothing to configure.
- Task Comments: Comment directly on a task, Drive file, sprint, CRM contact, or notification, and @mention the person, team, or AI employee who should act on it. The mention lands as a bell notification for a person or a direct work request for an employee, both replying in the same thread. Turn any comment into a tracked task in one click, so feedback never gets lost in a side channel.
- CRM: Every business runs on a CRM, the shared book of the people and companies it deals with. Sistava builds one in, and your AI employees run it for you. They add a prospect the moment one comes up, keep contacts current, open deals and move them down the pipeline as they progress, and write notes so nothing is forgotten. You get one clean place to see who you know, what's in flight, and what it's worth, without paying for a separate CRM.
- Sales Pipeline: Your deals live on a pipeline board, the same shape as your task board: a column for every stage, New, Screening, Meeting, Proposal, Customer, and a card for each deal showing its value and the company behind it. As a deal gets closer to won, it moves down the board. Your AI employees keep the pipeline current, opening deals, moving stages, and updating amounts, so you always know what's in flight and what it's worth, at a glance.
- Let Your Employee Use Any Desktop App: Your employee controls your actual desktop, not just a browser tab. It clicks, types, manages files, and runs terminal commands in real applications on your machine, the same way you would sitting at the keyboard. It works through the free Desktop Companion app and covers native software, file management, and shell tasks in one capability.
- Let Your Employee Work with Local Files: Connect the Desktop Companion app and your employee can read, write, list, and search files on your own computer, scoped to your home directory. Ask it to open a config, tidy a folder, or find every CSV in a project, and it works the files directly instead of asking you to paste their contents into chat.
- Let Your Employee Run Terminal Commands: Once you pair the Sista desktop app, your employee can run real shell commands on your machine: git, npm, brew, ls, grep, and anything else you'd type yourself. Commands run as your own user with no privilege escalation, and a hard-coded blocklist rejects destructive patterns like rm -rf /, disk formatting, or piping a remote script into a shell before they ever execute.
- Let Your Employee See Your Screen: Your employee looks at your actual screen and works from what it sees, not just an API. It captures your desktop through the Sista desktop app, reads the pixels the same way you would, and can click, type, and scroll based on what it finds. That covers any app you have open, including native software, dashboards, and design tools that never had an integration.
- Employee Drive: Every document, generated image, video, screenshot, and daily work log an employee produces lands automatically in its Drive, no saving required. Browse it per employee, per team, or company-wide, as a searchable flat grid or as folders. Files preview inline, from PDFs and spreadsheets to code and video, so you rarely need to download something just to read it. Every update becomes a numbered version that you can preview or restore without losing the original file.