How To Communicate With Hourly Employees Without Access To Email
Explore how to effectively communicate with hourly manufacturing employees without company emails, using text, apps, and other methods for improved engagement & productivity.
Reach your entire workforce
Managing attendance is just the beginning.
TeamSense establishes and maintains a digital connection to hourly employees so you can bridge the communication gap and bring the organization closer together.
Broadcast Messages
Instantly reach individual employees, teams, or a whole site with communications delivered via text (or email).
Employee Portal
Provide frontline workers with on-demand access to employee handbooks, benefits documentation, payroll login and company wide announcements.
Mobile Forms
Convert traditional, paper-based processes into easy to use, trackable digital forms.
Call-off Keeps Phone Numbers Current for Communication
Keep employee contacts fresh, automatically
When an employee calls off via text or voice, we keep track of the originating phone number and link it to their employee ID. You always have the latest contact info—even when phone numbers change.
Broadcast messages keep everyone in the know.
Meet employees where they are
Send broadcast messages via text to an individual employee, department, division, or even the entire company. Employee phone numbers are kept up-to-date so you can always reach 100% of your workforce and ensure everyone’s in the loop.
95%
of text messages are read within 3 minutes of being sent.1
Communicating to 600 employees can be really difficult because many of them don't have work email addresses. With TeamSense, we can now send text messages to communicate to our whole workforce or specific subgroups of them. It's been a strong part of the system for us.
Laura Simon
Human Resources Director, Friendship Village
Employee Onboarding
Accelerate onboarding by sharing resources, like company policies and documents, handbooks, and more—all delivered via text.
Benefits Enrollment
Stop chasing employees to meet enrollment deadlines. Empower employees with timely reminders to keep them on track.
Urgent Alerts
When time-sensitive news needs to get out, send an alert to everyone who needs to know.
Open Shift Fulfillment
Mitigate the impact of unplanned absences by filling the open shifts faster with a text announcement to available employees.
Celebrations and Recognition
Reward and recognize employees when they achieve goals and hit key milestones.
Safety Tips
Schedule safety tips and reminders to arrive just before shift start to keep safety top of mind.
Reminders
Send timely and helpful reminders for upcoming events and deadlines, like company meetings and engagement activities.
Employee Portal
Everything employees need—right at their fingertips
Share company-wide (or even site-specific) policies, handbooks, payroll, and benefits through a secure link.
Portal is completely configurable and easy to update.
Mobile Forms
Take the paper out of paperwork
Convert traditional, paper-based processes into digital forms sent via text. Responses are recorded and timestamped, so you always have the documentation you need.
- Safety incident reports & Mark Yourself Safe
- Engineering change orders
- New policy acknowledgement
- Maintenance requests
- Entry and exit surveys
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