Tis the season to have a little fun with your internal comms and intranet. Keep energy high and let the festive spirit out, no matter where your workforce is based, or how they access your platform.
If your deskless workers have access to your employee app, they will have all they need in the palm of their hand to get involved and experience company culture at its finest as excitement for the holidays builds up.
In a recent talk with Oak customer Burger King UK, Nick, Head of Engagement, said that their employee app had really created a FOMO (fear of missing out) mentality. Colleagues were regularly checking the app for updates like every other social media platform. By building up momentum for the festive season, give your employees something to get that FOMO feeling.
While it’s likely your deskless employees may not have much time off over the holiday season, the majority are still excited to share precious time with family and close friends. Plus, there’s no harm in bringing out the festive joy at work so they can experience the fun a little longer.
Let them get social
From Christmas jumper day to decorations in their homes or workspaces, create space on your social timelines or hubs for your colleagues to share photos and start conversations around the festivities. Whether they’re winding down or taking a quick break from the seasonal chaos, having something non-work related to engage with can be a welcome break.
Encourage appreciation
It’s crazy what a little recognition can do to someone's morale. A message of thanks or a shout-out for their hard work can turn someone’s day around! Put your employee recognition applet front and centre this festive season and watch the employee appreciation roll in. Don’t be afraid to kick-start the thanks giving with a few shout outs of your own.
Host digital awards
Whether you want to keep things local or spread the joy wide, what about using polls to allow people to vote for the best decorated site, the biggest Grinch or celebrate wins throughout the year? People can take part no matter where they’re based, on mobile or desktop and it keeps things lighthearted whilst giving people a chance to get involved.
Keep the comms flowing
Keeping momentum with internal comms can give your deskless staff a reason to continue checking in on the intranet in the run-up to the festive season. With deskless staff, it’s likely that many of them will be working over the festive period, so keeping spirits high and showing gratitude for their presence and hard work over busy times can give them the boost they need to deliver their usual high standards of work.
Schedule posts where necessary and you can even use the help of AI to save time, such as Aria, our AI assistant, to help draft an end of year message from the CEO, create a Christmas poem or round up the biggest internal news stories of the year into a full year round-up.
Personalised news
Having a department Christmas lunch? Perhaps you’re organising a local secret Santa or community gift giving drive. Keep it tailored to the people who will actually be involved. With a news feed personalised to the individual, their job type and location, you can ensure that they see events or activities that are just for them. This will make sure your people feel that they are being seen and appreciated with some fun activities or rewards.
Is an employee app on your Christmas list?
We hope that these tips are actionable in some way, no matter what kind of intranet or internal comms tool you have. Your deskless workers need to stay engaged all year round, so while your festive campaign will get people in the spirit, it’s also time to start thinking about how to keep them engaged into next year and beyond! Just look at what we’ve done for Five Guys, Burger King and ScS for proof.
If you’re on the lookout for an employee app that could work this festive magic for you with ease, let’s chat. New year’s resolution: Level up your comms with deskless workers and watch engagement skyrocket.
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