OUR: An Essential Tool for HR/Employee Engagement

Responsible leaders know that employee satisfaction is critical to organizational success. Human Resource departments leverage the OUR app as an engagement tool to ensure that employees are included in decisions that impact them.

When employees feel heard, the result is greater loyalty, productivity and lower turnover and absenteeism. Engagement on OUR gets critical players involved at the onset of decision making. OUR is a communication tool that is easy to use, provides a reliable platform to survey employees on decisions that impact them in their jobs and their life. Involving employees in decision-making creates greater buy-in, even if the result doesn’t meet everyone’s needs. Feeling heard reduces frustration, decreases disruption in the workplace and allows employees to focus on their jobs.

With OUR, your company logo is on the app, creating a branded, exclusive digital environment that supports in-person, remote and hybrid engagement. Organizations using the platform are led by moderators, such as HR managers, who generate informational polls and posts that are embedded into one continuous content feed. The moderator can post polls with visuals to the entire community (all management and staff, for example) or target a specific group (e.g., managers/supervisors, administrators, part-timers or freelancers) to gather a 360° perspective.

As a user interacts with content, the system keeps track of their answers compared with the rest of the community, allowing users to see what their co-workers think in real time. The platform also provides:

•   An immersive user journey through data visualization, animations, and responsible AI

•   Anonymity for users, though they have the option to reveal their identity

•   The option to change a vote as opinions evolve

•   Filters that allow for granular reporting of demographics, such as age, ethnicity and gender identity

Moderators can gather sentiment on something as simple as casual Friday attire to the date of the company picnic or to gather input on substantial topics such as benefits, project deadlines and new strategies. The OUR platform facilitates HR outreach and staff feedback any place, any time to connect managers and employees in a more human way.