EditorAll too often, management and human resource professionals believe that merely posting memos on bulletin boards, holding an employee meeting or two, or even having a website to pass information along to employees means that employees are “tuned in” to what their company is saying.
In today’s tech savvy world, though, there are some companies that are using technology to their advantage to keep their employees engaged.
If you know how important employee engagement is to keeping your workplace issue-free, here are six HUGE reasons (with links) why you should incorporate text messaging into your employee engagement plans:
- Text Messages Now Outrank Phone Calls as the Dominant Form of Communication Among Millennials.
- The Open Rate of SMS is 98% Compared with 22% of Emails.
- 90% of All SMS Text Messages are Read Within 3 Minutes.
- Texts Can Be Read Any Time, Anywere (even while walking).
- Unions Are Using Mobile Messaging to Reach Your Employees
- Texting Integrates Well With Other Company Communications by Sending Links to Company Websites and Employee Surveys.
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- Keeping Unions At Bay By Engaging Employees With Positive Employee Relations On Social Media
- Why Your Employees Don’t Read Your Email Messages
- Poll Everywhere lets you engage your audience or class (or employees) in real time
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. — Alan Watts.
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Is this a joke? Not only have we created a generation that hasn’t the ability to speak with each other, we are now going to reduce interaction to zero.
This is beyond stupid.
What part of *Part* (not all) is not understood?