# Purpose of the Main Dashboard

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The **Main Dashboard** feature offers a personalised, single entry point to the HR platform, allowing users to see what matters most to them at a glance and act swiftly. It combines milestone information, company communications, people insights, and outstanding HR tasks into a single view, reducing the need to navigate multiple menus and helping users stay on top of their responsibilities.

The dashboard highlights key items, including a **timeline** showing employment anniversaries and personal milestones, a **carousel banner** for organisation-wide announcements or featured content, and a **kudos** widget to promote peer recognition. Users can quickly view **colleagues** and people insights, check their current **performance status**, and read the **company values** to reinforce culture and behaviour. **Custom dashboard widgets** enable targeted announcements or direct links to specific areas of the platform, such as an e-learning course, a frequently used form, or an internal resource.

Overall, the purpose is threefold: to **inform**, **prompt**, and **connect**:

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The following pages in this chapter offer a closer look at each widget, explaining how they work, their role-based visibility, and how to configure them to suit your needs.

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