The People area

The People area is where you see the people you work with. It lists everyone in your organisation, shows who is around right now, and takes you to the organisation map and the organisation's settings.

Everything in it comes from your real organisation: its members, their profiles and their live status. Until you belong to an organisation with other people in it, the pages tell you what to set up next rather than showing an empty team.

Before you start

• Sign in. The People area reads your organisation from your PlexiDesk account. See Create an account and sign in.
• Belong to an organisation. Your Personal workspace has no team in it. Someone needs to create an organisation and invite you, or you create one and invite your team. See Set up and manage your organisation.
• Plans. People Home and Directory are on every plan. The Organisation page, the Organisation Map and live presence (seeing who is online right now) are part of the Team plan. On other plans, Organisation and Organisation Map do not appear in the People menu. See What each plan includes.

Open the People area

1. In the menu on the left, below the workspace switcher, click the People tab. See Desk, Office, People and Brain: the four areas.
2. People Home opens. The other People pages are listed in the People menu under Apps.

You can also press ⌘ K on a Mac (Ctrl K on Windows), type "people" and choose PlexiPeople.

What is in the People area

People Home

People Home is a dashboard, like Home in the Desk area. Its main widget, Team status, shows the four counts, the people directory and who is around. Click Customize at the top right to move, add or remove widgets. See Team status widget and Customize your Home dashboard.

Directory

The Directory page, titled PlexiPeople, shows the same information as the Team status widget on a full page:

• The counts. Total people, Online, Away or busy and Offline.
• People directory. Everyone in the organisation, with the people who are around listed first. Each row has the person's photo or initials, their name, their job title and department (or their role, such as Guest), and a status label. Type in Search people by name, role or team to find someone by name, handle, job title or department.
• Around right now. Up to eight people who are online or in a focus session.
• Organisation map. On the Team plan, Open the organisation map takes you to the map.

If you belong to more than one organisation, a menu at the top right switches the page between them. On the Team plan, Organisation map at the top right also opens the map.

Organisation

The Organisation page is where an organisation's owners and admins invite people, set roles, add offices, set working hours and fill in profiles. Members can see the page and edit their own profile. See Set up and manage your organisation and Offices, working hours and profiles.

Organisation Map

The Organisation Map page, titled People Map, places everyone by office and on a world map that shows where it is day and night, with each person's local time. See People Map.

What you will see before your team is set up

The Directory, Team status and the People Map each tell you what is missing:

Tips

• Check before you reach out. The status labels tell you who is online, in a focus session or busy, so you can leave people who are concentrating alone.
• Fill in profiles. Job titles and departments make the directory searchable by team. An owner or admin can fill them in for everyone, and each member can fill in their own. See Offices, working hours and profiles.
• Hide yourself when you need to. On the Team plan you can appear offline at any time. See Presence and your status.

Common questions

Why does everyone show as Offline? Seeing who is online right now is part of the Team plan. A person also shows as Offline while PlexiDesk is closed on their computer, or while they have chosen to appear offline. See Presence and your status.

Why are Organisation and Organisation Map missing from the menu? They are part of the Team plan. If your organisation has turned them off for you, ask an administrator. See What each plan includes.

I belong to two organisations. Which one does the Directory show? It starts with your first organisation. Use the menu at the top right of the page to switch. To change the workspace you are working in everywhere in PlexiDesk, use the workspace switcher. See Organisation settings and switching workspaces.

Where are chat, calls and meetings? They are in the Office area, under Communicate. See PlexiiChat and PlexiiMeet.

Related tasks

• Team status widget
• People Map
• Presence and your status
• Set up and manage your organisation
• Organisation settings and switching workspaces
• Desk, Office, People and Brain: the four areas