Corporate Alerts: How to Notify your Employees in less than 60 Seconds

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With employees spread across multiple sites or working remotely, ensuring daily communication and strengthening company culture has become more challenging. In this context, implementing a reliable and effective corporate alert system is crucial because it is increasingly difficult to guarantee that priority messages reach all employees. Workstations and PCs are the most universal communication medium; employees spend most of their time there, making them the ideal anchor point for instant alerts.  Although many communication tools are used daily, such as email, the intranet, Teams, and Slack, they often contribute to information overload and are not always targeted or impactful. Each channel meets specific needs, but none is the go-to method for top-down corporate communication.  The real challenge is ensuring that a strategic or urgent message is delivered, seen, and understood immediately by all employees. 

Traditional communication tools on PCs and smartphones are often used for alerts but they quickly reach their limits. 

• Email: Employees can get lost in overflowing inboxes. Alerts may be missed if the user is not actively checking email. 

• Teams / Slack: Messages require the app to be open and the user’s attention. With multiple teams posting continuously, important alerts can easily be overlooked. Contacting thousands of users in real-time may take several minutes. 

• SMS: Requires a company phone, which is rarely available. The delivery speed depends on the service provider and network. There is no feedback on message reception or reading. 

Channels ensures that all employees are alerted in real time, in a highly visible and impactful way. 

• Instant and unavoidable alerts: Alerts appear as a pop-up in the center of the screen and take precedence over all running applications. Employees must acknowledge the alert to continue working, which allows senders to verify that the message was received and read. 

• Targeted Messaging: Alerts can be customized based on location, department, application use, or any other criteria defined by the company. 

• Automated triggers: Through APIs, Channels can launch alerts from third-party systems or applications (e.g.,fire alarms or industrial machines) or physical triggers (push buttons, desktop shortcuts), which increases responsiveness. 
• Reliable source of information in crises: Employees receive centralized, trustworthy information to ensure their safety.
• With Channels, information reaches everyone quickly and efficiently, enabling your organization to handle emergency situations with confidence.