360 Feedback cycles are more flexible than Performance Review cycles. These dates are soft deadlines, and your cycle timeline may look different depending on other cycle settings.
The sections shown in the timeline are based on the cycle’s configuration and visibility settings. For example, nomination and approval dates appear only when nominations and approvals are enabled, and feedback release dates depend on how feedback visibility is configured.
Cycle starts: The date employees are notified about the cycle and can take their first steps. If employees are nominating reviewers, this is when they receive the notification to start nominating. If HR Admins have assigned reviewers, this is the date reviewers are notified to start writing.
Tip: Create the cycle in advance to have the launch emails sent automatically
Reviewees should nominate by: A suggested deadline for employees to nominate their reviewers. They can continue to nominate after this date.
Note: If an employee's reviewers have already been approved, only their manager or an HR Admin can adjust the nominations.
Approval process begins: The date managers can start approving nominees, if you're using this option. This date can be set before the end of the nomination period to allow for rolling nominations and approvals.
Approval process ends: Managers should finish their approvals by this date, though they can continue to approve after it passes.
Feedback should be ready to share by: A suggested deadline for writing feedback. Reviewers can continue writing after this date.
Feedback released to managers: The date managers can see submitted feedback. This is optional. You can also enable the option to allow managers to see feedback as soon as a reviewer shares it.
Feedback released to reviewees: The date employees can see submitted feedback. This is optional. You can allow employees to see feedback immediately after a reviewer submits it, and managers can also release feedback before this deadline.
If feedback is shared after the release dates, it will be shared immediately with managers and reviewees.
Cycle ends: The deadline for submitting feedback. Once this date passes, the prompt to write feedback is removed from the employee's To Do tab on their Feedback page. Since the feedback form is no longer available, employees cannot write or submit feedback after the deadline.
If an employee started writing before the deadline but did not share their feedback, it will be saved as a draft. That means you can adjust the Cycle Ends date to give people more time to finish up.