Introducing Workplace Announcements…
Communication is the foundation of any successful hybrid workplace. If your workforce is distributed across different spaces, be it the office, a co-working space, or at home, it’s integral that everyone feels connected.
Kadence is the management software that has allowed you and your team to find the time and place to connect. Now, Kadence can also transform your internal communications through its Workplace Announcements feature. Keeping your team up to date has never been easier.
What are Workplace Announcements?
Imagine you want to promote a social event at work or tell your team about a building closure. Rather than sending a mass email or a message easily missed in a busy Slack channel, you can now communicate directly with employees in Kadence.
We’ve enabled admin users to create, schedule, and send workplace announcements that employees can see in their Kadence dashboard. In just a few simple clicks, you can notify them with key updates and important information.
You can set priorities, so high-priority updates sit at the top of their inbox. And admins can segment who gets what information. You might want to tell the whole company about a town hall meeting happening later that day, but just the finance team about the plans for their Secret Santa nominations.
Announcements are personalized to what you need them to be. And they bring huge benefits that transform your workplace culture.
What can you use Workplace Announcements for?
Workplace Announcements can boost efficiency across your teams. We’ve come up with a few to help you get started.
- Company-wide Announcements
Maybe you need to share a major company milestone or policy change with all employees. With Announcements, every employee, in-office or remote, gets the information at the same time, making sure communication is consistent. - Office-Specific Updates
Perhaps the facilities team has to inform employees in a specific office about maintenance work or office closures. Admins can target certain office locations with this feature. Only employees at the relevant location get the announcement. This is important for sharing information that only affects certain offices and avoids unneeded notifications for others. - Team-Specific Communication
Managers can use Announcements to share project updates, deadlines, or meeting schedules with a team. They can select which team needs to get the information and streamline communication. - Emergency Notifications
During an emergency like a fire or a sudden office closure, admins can inform all employees. Sending an Announcement is quick. Promptly notify everyone in a building with just a few clicks and enhance safety.
Announcements like these can result in three key benefits that will transform your workplace.
1. Keep Teams Informed and Engaged
Distributed workforces are at risk of losing touch with their company culture. HR Managers need to ensure individuals feel like they belong to a company even when they may no longer spend as much time in the office. It’s easy for employees to miss out on key events that give them opportunities to connect with colleagues across the company.
With Announcements, social events can be promoted in advance. It’s an easy way to let team members know about a colleague’s birthday or a bake sale that helps a local charity. Employees are more likely to decide to go into the office if given the chance to plan accordingly. And it’s handy that it exists in the same place where they can book a desk.
Maybe you’re looking to encourage employees to come into the office, so you set up a cycle-to-work scheme. There’s no better way to tell them than in Kadence, where they organize their diaries and decide where and when they will work.
An informed and engaged team will cultivate a stronger sense of culture and boost individual well-being.
2. Talk to the Right People
Our Announcements feature means it’s easier to share the right updates with the right group. This could be sharing information with one team, rather than the whole company. But we’ve learned that often updates also need to be filtered by location and booking.
Perhaps there is a fire drill scheduled to take place in one of your office locations on the upcoming Friday. Everyone using that building will need to be informed. Kadence allows you to send an Announcement to every employee booked to use the office on that upcoming Friday. You can set the message as urgent so they see it at the top of their inbox.
You can also schedule Announcements in advance. In this example, you could set a reminder for the fire drill an hour before it is due to take place on Friday. Everyone using the office on Friday will get that notification. This is true even if they spontaneously decided that morning to head into the office and missed your last Announcement that you only sent to those already booked.
3. Streamline Internal Communication
Announcements enable managers to efficiently inform teams of company news and changes. And as a result, employees feel confident that they have not missed key information, because they know exactly where it’s stored and how to access it. The result is a workplace built on trust.
With Kadence, you can also send the same Announcements to Slack, Microsoft Teams and the Kadence App. This is helpful if Announcements relate to an emergency, or if you’re in the process of onboarding teams to Kadence.
Kadence promotes ease of use for admins. Announcements only take a few clicks to set up and the ability to schedule in advance means you can streamline your workload. You can feel assured that information will be received across the workforce.
Find out more by booking a demo with us today. See how Kadence can help you and your team find your rhythm of work.
