Employees use a huge variety of tools – sanctioned by the company or not – to do their jobs. One study found that the average enterprise runs more than 300 apps. Another study determined that employees have to switch between apps every two to three minutes.
Think of all the tools and channels we have to use, from email and texts to the latest messaging apps and videoconferencing software, to good old-fashioned phone calls and face-to-face meetings. The challenges are compounded as people work across geographies, hierarchies and functions.
With numbers like that, there’s no denying that employee engagement has a sizable impact on a company’s bottom line. One of the most effective ways to improve employee engagement is with software that enhances the employee experience. Engagement software can help your company increase employee satisfaction, retention, productivity and ultimately, revenue.
Employees work in offices, at home and away from desks altogether. They work in different teams and different tools. They’re disconnected geographically, organizationally and technologically. At one time, traditional intranet software seemed to offer a solution. Unfortunately, intranets using that software haven’t aged well, and have become little more than dusty content repositories that few employees use. That’s where Jive Interactive Intranet software comes in. Jive is a new kind of intranet software solution, providing the modern collaboration capabilities today’s businesses need – and giving people one place to connect, engage and accomplish things together that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to do alone.
An intranet is like a company’s own internal internet—essentially a private website, hosted in the cloud, on-premises or on external hosting facilities. A company intranet is a closed business network that connects all employees with one location to find all information, people and tools.
Is your company’s intranet feeling its age? That’s not unusual. Most corporate intranets have been around a long time. They’re based on old-generation technology (decades old in some cases), and haven’t kept pace with modern business needs. While newer tools have been transforming communication and collaboration with engaging consumer-style interfaces, rich interactivity and social features, many intranets have become little more than dusty filing cabinets and company bulletin boards.
