Homepage. You've re-invented the homepage.<p>I've worked in companies where the default homepage was the announcements feed on the Intranet. Didn't make people actually read them though!
There is an extra danger with this (we built this at my previous company, and then deleted it), where users end up not seeing the messages anymore, but when they go to internet cafes / planes / public areas they leak very critical information (typically quarterly goals and how we're doing).<p>Leads to really bad media leaks.
Last week we had some fun building a lightweight (mostly to see how chrome extensions work) tool to let companies send company announcements in all their coworkers' new tab.<p>If this sounds a little odd, here's how it works:<p>1. Install the Chrome extension [0], open a new tab and you'll see sample content. Hit the signup button and create a new account.<p>2. Now that you have an account, configure your company's page and invite your coworkers (they have to signup with their work email).<p>3. You're ready to create and publish announcements from the admin area. Everyone in your company will see them when opening a new tab.<p>[0] <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sametab/glmeidaaambjhneppgaalmcjmcjpedeb" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sametab/glmeidaaam...</a>
A lot of people ignore their work announcements because "they dont really care" about their jobs/companies (except for the paycheck to cover health/mortgage).. Why should an employee be fully engaged at work when she/he is just a "disposable" part of a machine and can be let go at any time (and should be ok with it because this is how it always was done)?<p>Ummm they really think company wide emails (that are often pushed to personal cell phones) are not enough? Now lets see it in the browser tab as well? Really? Whats next? Automatically engraved announcements on coworkers foreheads?<p>The problem is NOT that people "dont have an opportunity to see the announcements" - the problem is that people are not really interested in their jobs. Make job interesting to an employee and truly care about an employee (prove it by action) then people will be more engaged at work!<p>"Of the country’s approximately 100 million full-time employees, 51 percent aren’t engaged at work -- meaning they feel no real connection to their jobs, and thus they tend to do the bare minimum...Another 16 percent are “actively disengaged” ... feel their needs aren’t being met at work etc."<p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-so-many-americans-hate-their-jobs/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-so-many-americans-hate-thei...</a>
That's a great idea!<p>Some feedback: It would be great if this could be used as a widget on top of an existing new tab page. I really like <a href="https://tabliss.io" rel="nofollow">https://tabliss.io</a>, which shows the time, weather, and a nice photo from unsplash. If I was working somewhere that used this for company announcements, I would prefer to continue using tabliss, and show company announcements as a small widget on the bottom right.<p>But yeah, I like using the new tab page as a dashboard for this kind of thing. Email and slack notifications are too disruptive, and this is more like a notice board where you can casually glance at it when you have some time.<p>EDIT: Tabliss supports custom CSS and JS, so I could add this myself. Or could even contribute an official widget, because it's open source: <a href="https://github.com/joelshepherd/tabliss" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/joelshepherd/tabliss</a><p>EDIT 2: This is unrelated, but I just saw that Tabliss added a "literature clock" widget. That's really cool! Here's my new tab: <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/99hL1Ei" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/gallery/99hL1Ei</a>
It mentions <i>"they have to signup with their work email"</i>, so there's some notion of the page data being private.<p>I'm curious how well protected it really is.<p>Also, is the first email from domain X to sign up the default admin for that domain? How do you resolve disputes?
I can maybe see some companies having actual use for them, and the discipline to only include emergency/super important info.<p>I can't see that being more than 10% of the companies, and the rest will just post really useless garbage.