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One screen shows your whole team: who’s on it, what they’ve been doing, and how much of it needed you.

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What it does

Open Cowork → Roster. Every coworker you’ve hired appears as a card with its name, role, and what it’s working on. Above the cards sits a strip of numbers for the workspace as a whole, and below them a small diagram of who’s been asking whom for help. Both cover a time window you can change.

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The numbers worth watching

Three figures, and the interesting ones aren’t what people expect. Asked for you is the one to watch. A coworker that asks constantly usually has instructions that are too vague, or capabilities too narrow for its job. A coworker that never asks on sensitive work may need permission rules tightened rather than loosened. Got stuck rising is normally a connection that’s stopped working, or a job that’s outgrown one coworker.
The workspace stats strip showing tasks finished, asked for you, and got stuck

Volume, then the two that actually tell you something. Both are also shown per coworker.

Both numbers are also shown per coworker, so you can tell which one is the outlier.

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How work moves

Underneath, a diagram titled How work moves — who asked whom for help, with a thicker line for a busier pair. Each coworker is a circle sized by how much of the workspace’s work runs through it. It answers questions a list can’t:
  • Is one coworker doing everything while the others idle?
  • Are two coworkers constantly asking each other, when one would do?
  • Did the specialist I hired ever actually get used?
The How work moves panel showing three coworkers on a circle joined by lines of different thickness

Nora is doing most of the asking, and the Nora–Sam pair is much busier than Nora–Ivy.

The panel also shows how many exchanges are still open.
The diagram only appears once your coworkers are actually handing work to each other, which needs Working with coworkers switched on. A team of one has nothing to draw.

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Good to know

Check the roster weekly, not daily. The numbers are about patterns. Change the window to a longer period and the signal is much clearer than day-to-day noise.
A very large team shows the busiest dozen coworkers in the diagram, and tells you how many it left out rather than quietly dropping them.

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Common questions

Its card shows what it’s currently working on. Open it to follow along — see Managing your tasks.
Not necessarily, but it’s worth asking whether it’s doing things a specialist would do better. A lopsided diagram is usually the moment to hire a second coworker rather than push the first harder.
Yes — open it and choose the Activity tab for its full history in order.
Pause it. It stays on the roster, stops working, and keeps everything it learned. See Retiring, re-hiring and templates.

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Next steps

Working with coworkers

What the diagram is drawing.

Managing your tasks

Everything in flight.

Retiring and templates

Pause, re-hire, reuse.

Hiring a coworker

Add someone to the team.