Employee Center features and interface

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
  • 2 minutes to read
  • Learn about the Employee Center user interface.

    Employee Center is delivered to all customers as a pre-installed application, while Employee Center Pro is a licensed application and must be separately installed. For more information on Employee Center Pro, see Employee Center Pro features and interface.

    Figure 1. Employee Center feature summary
    Employee Center versus Employee Center Pro
    Note:
    These images are for illustration purpose only. For more up-to-date theme and UI, see the product interface.

    Employee Center home page

    Employee Center application is available by default. This portal is loaded with the latest widgets and a modern portal theme that gives an employee-centric content delivery experience.

    Figure 2. Home page and widgets
    Employee Center home page with widget options
    Note:
    The latest widgets are made available only after you install Employee Center from the ServiceNow Store.
    • Enhanced home page theme: Unifies various types of content, such as requests, articles, and quick links. Theme aligns with the latest sets components, a new color scheme, a logo update, and CSS variable adjustments for better browsing experience.
    • Header enhancement: Helps users navigate to the tasks, requests, favorites, and search effectively.

    Browse experience

    The browse experience within the Unified Taxonomy drives the employee-centric discovery experience across the portal by offering a combination of widgets and portal pages that use a unified content taxonomy to tailor content based on employee needs.

    This approach enables the inclusion of multi-department portal pages, such as HR, IT, Legal, and Workplace, within the same portal, providing a unified experience.

    Key features include:

    The browse experience ensures that your Employee Center portal is not only unified and comprehensive but also user-friendly, facilitating easier access to relevant information based on employee needs.

    Unified browse

    Delivers a unified content view for requests and articles that are associated to the topic and its child topics. A portal admin can feature any content under this feature.

    Figure 3. Browsing experience
    Unified browse experience with items

    Content recommendations

    Get the most relevant content like Knowledge Base articles, Service Catalog items, and Learning content chosen for you by popularity or by ML-based user metrics.

    Cross-channel favorites

    Employees get quick access to frequently-used content across multiple channels and business units directly from the My favorites widget on the home page or the My Favorites link in the global header navigation bar.

    For configuration, see Cross-channel favorites.