GWork vs. Teamflect: What’s the Difference?

Teamflect is positioning itself as the go-to Viva Goals replacement for Microsoft Teams users. If you’re comparing it with GWork, you’re probably a Teams-heavy organization trying to figure out what to do after Microsoft retired Viva Goals in December 2025.

What Teamflect Does Well

Teamflect is an all-in-one performance management app that lives entirely inside Microsoft Teams. OKRs, reviews, 1:1s, recognition, surveys, all without leaving Teams. It’s the closest direct replacement for Viva Goals, and migration is straightforward.

Core features:

• OKR and goal tracking native to Microsoft Teams
• Performance reviews and 360-degree feedback
• 1:1 meeting templates with shared agendas in calendar invites
• Employee recognition and kudos
• Engagement surveys and pulse checks
• Task management tied to goals

Pricing: Free for up to 10 users (no feature limitations). Professional plan starts at $11/user/month.

What users like: Adoption is Teamflect’s biggest advantage. Because it lives inside Teams, employees actually use it. Recognizing a colleague takes seconds. Feedback is always accessible. The 1:1 agendas that appear directly in meeting invites drive real manager-employee conversations. The free tier for small teams is genuinely generous.

Common complaints: Heavily dependent on Microsoft Teams, which limits usefulness for organizations not fully in the Microsoft system. The OKR module lacks strategy maps, visual alignment views, and goal cascading across the organization. Custom goal frameworks are limited. If you’re using Slack or Google Workspace, Teamflect isn’t an option. And for organizations over 300+ people, the lack of strategic planning features starts to show.

What GWork Does

GWork isn’t an OKR tool and it’s not a Viva Goals replacement in the traditional sense. It solves the problem that Viva Goals never solved: getting strategic priorities to actually change daily behavior.

Teamflect helps you track whether goals exist and whether people are checking in on them. GWork helps make sure the underlying work is actually changing.

The Core Difference

Teamflect is a system of record for goals and performance, built natively for Teams. It’s the most smooth Viva Goals replacement on the market.

GWork is a system of action. It works alongside goal-tracking tools to drive implementation at the behavior level.

A Concrete Example

Say your organization sets a goal: “Every manager conducts structured weekly 1:1s focused on development, not just status updates.”

With Teamflect: You create the goal. Teamflect provides 1:1 templates inside Teams meetings. Managers can check off that they held the 1:1. The dashboard shows 85% of managers are conducting weekly meetings. Looks great on paper.

With GWork: You define what “structured development-focused 1:1” actually looks like in practice (asking specific development questions, documenting action items, following up on previous commitments). GWork reinforces those behaviors in the manager’s daily workflow. Within 30 days, you see which managers are genuinely running development conversations vs. Which are just checking the box.

Teamflect tracks whether the meeting happened. GWork changes what happens in the meeting.

When to Choose Teamflect

• You need a direct Viva Goals replacement that lives in Teams
• Performance reviews, 1:1s, and recognition are your primary use case
• You want a fast, simple migration with minimal disruption
• Your team is under 300 people and uses Microsoft 365 exclusively
• You want something free to get started (10-user free tier)

When to Choose GWork

• You already had OKR tracking (Viva or otherwise) and it didn’t move the needle
• Strategic priorities are defined but not showing up in daily execution
• The problem isn’t tracking goals. The problem is that daily work hasn’t changed.
• You’re a 300+ person enterprise where behavior change needs to happen at scale
• You need your technology to work beyond just Microsoft Teams

Can You Use Both?

Absolutely. Teamflect handles OKR tracking and performance management inside Teams. GWork handles the behavior implementation that makes those OKRs more than words on a screen. One tracks what you want to achieve. The other helps make it happen.

For more on why goal tracking alone doesn’t drive change, we explore the gap between building a feedback culture and making it stick.

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