Visier, the globally recognized leader in Workforce Intelligence, has unveiled its Manager Agent at the HRTech Conference 2025, introducing a new category of AI-driven support for front-line managers. This innovative solution embeds strategic insights directly into daily workflows, enabling better people decisions, optimized team processes, and automated actions that align with business objectives, ultimately freeing managers to focus on high-impact team interactions and unlocking enhanced potential in the workplace.
Managers influence 70% of business outcomes, yet they face unprecedented pressures from overwhelming workloads, fragmented data, and reduced support structures, leading to widespread burnout rates of 30-50%. This challenge extends beyond morale, posing a significant risk to organizational performance. Conventional tools and sporadic training have proven inadequate, leaving managers disconnected from strategic priorities and unable to prioritize high-impact activities. Visier's Manager Agent counters this by integrating AI-powered insights and best-practice guidance into workflows, automating tasks like scheduling meetings and drafting 1:1 agendas to save time, reduce frustration, and clearly link actions to results.
"The role of the people manager has reached a breaking point. We're in the midst of 'The Great Flattening' as we see companies around the globe and in all industries eliminating middle management level roles. This is massively increasing pressure on the ones that remain, with 82% of managers finding themselves in that role as 'accidental managers.' To succeed, they don't need another dashboard or a generic training module, they need the right intelligence right at their fingertips," said Keith Bigelow, Senior VP and Chief Product Officer at Visier. "Manager Agent allows organizations to scale front-line managers to handle and thrive in the new world of work with a flatter managerial environment."
Visier's Manager Agent serves as a personalized advisor, pulling unstructured data from operational sources like customer interactions, project updates, and quality metrics to deliver filtered, actionable performance insights with recommended steps. This keeps managers informed on key decisions, fostering confidence and effectiveness in their roles.
The agent bridges high-level company objectives with tangible team goals, automatically validating OKRs against organizational priorities and monitoring progress through integrations with tools like Jira and Salesforce. This ensures alignment from top to bottom, providing clear visibility into performance drivers and purpose for every team member.
With 65% of employees desiring more feedback from managers, the Manager Agent automates 1:1 preparations, drafts data-informed performance reviews, schedules retention-focused "stay conversations" for at-risk top performers, and supplies expert talk tracks—including simulations for challenging discussions. It prompts essential conversations to build loyalty, motivation, and development, transforming feedback into a routine tool that elevates manager skills and supports employee growth.
Research from Gallup, i4cp, SHRM, and others demonstrates that robust performance feedback cultures can double net profit margins, ROI, return on assets, and return on equity, with 80% of employees receiving weekly meaningful feedback reporting full engagement. By embedding support for goal alignment, timely feedback, and risk identification into workflows, Visier Manager Agent drives tangible gains, such as a 16% performance increase through better alignment and a 26% uplift from personalized, ongoing feedback.
Available in early 2026, the Manager Agent represents a transformative step in workforce intelligence, enabling enterprises to scale effective management practices and achieve sustained high performance. Visit Visier's booth #5209 at HRTech 2025 for a demo or explore more at visier.com/products/manager-agent.
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