6 Excellent Apps for Employee Communication in a Digital Workplace

The collaboration specifically between employees and their managers has been increased by 50% or more in the last two decades in the frontline companies, as per a recent study by the Harvard Business Review. The report also cites that the collaborative activities such as replying emails, making phone calls, and giving or receiving feedback has decreased the productivity level of the employees. However, spending time in collaborative activities that are supposed to support work, can’t hamper productivity. In fact, another study by the McKinsey Global Institute proved this entire concept to be wrong. The survey found that, on the contrary, the employees using online social tools to collaborate, has shown a rise in the productivity level as much as 20-25%.

Some of the apps that help accomplish effective internal communication are mentioned below:

1.    Slack

Slack has become a popular tool for instantaneous communication within a team. After creating an account and joining the team, the user is welcomed by a clean and forthright interface including a few different channels. Launched in 2013, this cloud-based team communication app features chat rooms organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. This popular app is available for web, iOS, android, and windows phone.

2.    Campfire

Campfire is a web-based communication tool, with ample numbers of features. An employee can connect with a vendor, client, or colleague with this app. Password-protected group chat is another convenient feature of this app, which makes it lovable to its users. The members can share files, texts, and codes using this tool. As a web-based tool, the account creation is easy, time-efficient, and hassle-free. 

3.    Troop Messenger

Specifically intended to connect teams across the company, Troop messenger helps its users to share ideas among the teams with the features of group conversations, private messaging, audio messaging, voice and video calls. This easy-to-use application fashioned with unified navigation feature makes it more than useful to deliver uninterrupted workflow. 

With an attractive advanced filter group feature, the user can filter the search results based on files, videos, images, contacts, location, and URLs.

The three pricing variants of this SaaS freemium business model are: free, premium, and enterprise. Corporate users can try and access the features of an enterprise pricing variation by signing-up for a free trial. 

4.    Skype

Skype is one of the mostly-used communication tool for workplace. This app offers features such as group chats, file sharing, free audio and video calls, screen sharing, and free group video calling. Skype is one of the simplest and most popular tools out there. A more sophisticated version, Skype Business, has been launched in 2015. Skype business provides similar services as the basic Skype, with the addition of integration with online meetings, scheduling meetings in Outlook, Office apps, and many more. 

5.    Blink

An excellent communication app for the forefront companies, where the mainstream employees work remotely. This app gives access to the same technology for customer-facing employees in industries such as construction, hospitality, transit, and retail that their desk-based workers have enjoyed for years in a desktop intranet. 

6.    Wrike

Another project management and task- assigning tool for internal communication is Wrike. This excellent collaboration platform offers a place to start a discussion and share files. This app offers a transparent platform where everyone can share their authentic views. 

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Princy A. J

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