Manage Global Viewers

In this article, we walk through the process of managing Global Viewers for your organization. Global Viewer is a permission in 15Five that can be assigned to a person's account to give them special permissions. While this role is typically reserved for HR teams, co-leaders, and administrators, a person doesn't have to be an account admin to be a Global Viewer. There can be multiple Global Viewers in a company.

To keep things transparent—any user, including HR admins, can view the list of Global Viewers right from their own settings. This ensures employees always have clarity around who holds this permission and can see Check-ins across the organization.

In this article, you will learn...

• What permissions Global Viewers have
• How to make someone a Global Viewer
• Viewing the List of Global Viewers in 15Five

   

What permissions do Global Viewers have?

• Check-ins: Global Viewers can view the Check-ins of everyone in their organization, with the exception of any answers marked as “private.”
• Objectives: Global Viewers can see all objectives that are set to "15Five permissions."

Extended visibility into 1-on-1 agendas

There is also an option to grant Global Viewers in your organization extended visibility into 1-on-1 agendas if certain criteria are met (e.g. your organization has a legal necessity or specific HR-related reasons for needing this access). Global viewers with 1-on-1 permissions can view agendas for the following types of 1-on-1s:

• 1-on-1s between a user and their manager
• 1-on-1s between a user and any past manager
• 1-on-1s between a user and their team members
• 1-on-1s between a user and any past team member

Make someone a Global Viewer

To make someone a Global Viewer for Check-ins, an account admin must reach out to 15Five’s Support Team and request this permission to be added to that person’s account.

If you need Global Viewers in your organization to have visibility into 1-on-1s, request this access in your message to 15Five's Support Team and include your reason for needing this added visibility (e.g. your organization has a legal necessity or specific HR-related reasons for needing access to 1-on-1s).

Viewing the list of Global Viewers in 15Five

Transparency is an important part of how 15Five works. Since Global Viewers have broad visibility into all Check-ins across your organization, we want every employee to be able to see who those individuals are. This helps build trust by making it clear who has access to company-wide Check-in data.

How to see who the Global Viewers are?

Follow these steps to view the list of Global Viewers:

1. Click on the settings gear in the top-right corner of your 15Five account.
   

2. Select My settings from the dropdown menu.
   

3. Click to open the Check-in visibility tab at the top of the page.
   

4. You’re now on the Who can see my Check-ins? page. Here you’ll see several sections: Reviewer drill-down, Group permissions, Followers, and Global Viewers.
   

5. Click on Global Viewers to see the list of users with this permission. These individuals can view all Check-ins across the company.