Visier Unveils Manager Agent to Combat Burnout and Drive Business Impact, Powering a New Era of Manager Excellence and High-Performance Teams

Visier's new AI agent works alongside every manager in your business, helping them make the right decisions to align their teams, hit their performance goals, and retain top talent

VANCOUVER, BC and LAS VEGAS, Sept. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Visier, the globally recognized leader in Workforce Intelligence, today announced the launch of its Manager Agent to scale great management behaviors in enterprises and unlock superhuman potential at work.

Launched at HRTech Conference 2025, Visier's groundbreaking Manager Agent creates a new category of Workforce Intelligence, as it is designed to provide always-on support for front-line managers in an enterprise. It directly embeds strategic insights into a manager's daily workflow, empowering them to make better people decisions, design better team processes, and automate actions that have a positive impact on business goals. Manager Agent works tirelessly on behalf of people managers, fetching data, analyzing performance, and surfacing the insights and guidance they need in the moment to take action, right where their work happens. It frees up time so managers can focus on the impact they have with their teams, unlocking the capacity for true connection and the ability to prioritize the right things.

Managers drive 70% of business outcomes, yet they are breaking under the pressure of a new work reality. Facing overwhelming workloads, fragmented data, and shrinking support and teams, it's widely cited that 30-50% of managers now report burnout. This isn't just a morale issue for organizations, it's a direct threat to business performance. Traditional tools and infrequent training have failed to solve this crisis, leaving managers and their teams disconnected from strategic objectives, unable to identify and work toward the things that will have the biggest impact. Visier's Manager Agent addresses this tension head on, by infusing AI-powered data insights and best practice guidance directly into the manager's workflow and putting them into action by scheduling meetings, writing agendas for 1:1s, and much more. With the power of both insights and action taken on behalf of the manager, managers can expect to save time, alleviate frustration, and draw a direct line between their actions and impact.

"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 empowers managers in three critical areas:

• More Confident and Effective Managers, Transforming Insights Into Action: Acting as a dedicated and bespoke assistant and advisor for front-line people managers, Manager Agent filters signals from across the business by fetching unstructured operational data from the systems and tools where work happens. It gathers data from sources including customer interactions, project updates, service requests, quality metrics, daily operations and more, and turns them into actionable performance insights with recommended actions, keeping the manager in the loop on critical decisions.
• Smarter Team Alignment to Business Goals: It translates high-level company objectives into clear, measurable team goals. By automatically tracking progress from systems like Jira and Salesforce, Manager Agent ensures every team's work is directly aligned with the organization's mission and provides visibility into what's driving performance. Team OKRs are validated against company objectives, ensuring top to bottom alignment, and a clear purpose for every employee.
• Improved Employee Engagement and Retention: Feedback is coveted, with 65% of employees wanting more of it from their managers and not receiving it. Manager Agent automates preparation for 1:1 meetings, drafts data-driven performance reviews, books the "stay conversation" meeting for your top performer at risk of resigning, and gives managers expert-informed talk tracks along the way, even prepping managers with simulated tough conversations, turning insight directly into effective action. It prompts the manager to have the crucial conversations that build loyalty, motivate and develop their people, and prevent top talent from leaving. Feedback becomes an often-used tool that serves to improve manager effectiveness and support employees in their daily work.

From Intelligence to Impact: Manager Agent Promises to Deliver Measurable Results

Industry research from Gallup, i4cp, SHRM, and others highlights the profound impact of managerial work on business outcomes, revealing that organizations with strong performance feedback cultures have doubled their net profit margin, return on investment, return on assets, and return on equity. Underscoring this connection, Gallup found that 80% of employees who received meaningful feedback in the past week were fully engaged. To help achieve these results, the new Visier Manager Agent revolutionizes how front-line managers receive support by embedding intelligent assistance directly into their daily workflows. This AI focuses on critical moments like aligning team objectives with organizational goals, providing timely feedback, and identifying resignation risks. By doing so, it opens up the potential for significant gains, including a 16% performance boost through enhanced goal alignment and a 26% performance improvement by advising managers to deliver continuous, impactful, and personalized employee feedback.

Availability

Visier's Manager Agent will be available in early 2026. To discover firsthand how to improve manager effectiveness in your own organization, visit Visier's booth (#5209) at HRTech Conference 2025 for a demo. You can also learn more at visier.com/products/manager-agent.

About Visier
Visier is the global leader in Workforce Intelligence that powers every people decision. Our award-winning, agentic AI technology surfaces the insights leaders need to plan, decide, and act with confidence in the moments that matter most. As the market leader in people analytics, workforce planning, organizational design, and manager effectiveness solutions, we fuel smarter decision-making for organizations across the globe. Our mission is to help businesses lead with insight at scale as they continuously transform.

Founded in 2010 by the pioneers of business intelligence, we have over 65,000 customers in 75 countries—including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Domino's Pizza, Experian, Amgen, eBay, and Ford Motor Company.

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