Beekeeper

Vorteile

Uns gefällt, dass wir nun nur über das Smartphone alle unsere Kollegen erreichen können, dies war vorher aufgrund fehlender Hardware auf unseren Baustellen nicht möglich. Die Benutzerfreundlichkeit wird sich erst noch herausstellen, da wir erst vor ein paar Wochen die App eingeführt haben. Es zeigt sich aber schon jetzt, dass der Großteil der Mitarbeiter sie nutzen und akzeptieren.

Nachteile

Die Worker Bees funktionieren noch nicht ganz so, wie wir uns das wünschen würden. Wir haben aber bereits ein Feedback hierzu abgegeben. Auch die Suche nach Mitarbeitern unterschieden nach Firmen fehlt uns in der Chatfunktion. Ansonsten ist die unterschiedliche Darstellung im Web-Browser vs. Smartphone etwas störend, da sich so das Hochladen der Titelbilder schwierig gestaltet.

Vorteile

Durch den einfachen und teilweise bekannten Aufbau, ist die Nutzung durch die Mitarbeiter direkt gegeben.
Die Nutzung von Labels (Hashtags) ermöglicht eine definierte Suche, wie ein Filter.

Nachteile

Die Löschfunktion im Bereich Chat ist noch nicht vorhanden.

Vorteile

Die kann intuitiv bedient werden und kann von allen Mitarbeitern (auch via Mobile) benutzt werden. Unser grösster Vorteil ist, dass wir unsere Sprachbarriere aufheben konnten. Zudem können wir alle MAs zur gleichen Zeit informieren.

Nachteile

Chat-Nachrichten können nicht gelöscht werden.
Chats können nur Archiviert statt gelöscht werden. Will man dann mit einer Person einen neuen Chat eröffnen, kommt der archivierte Chat wieder.
Eine Löschfunktion (Chat + Chat-Nachricht) wäre wünschenswert.

Vorteile

Intuitive for end-user, easy to setup, so many different applications it can be used for, company is constantly updating and improving the app. Great for top-down and bottom-up communication. Engages employees and unifies multiple locations to feel more like one company. Great analytics on back end. We signed up right before Covid and it ended up being an invaluable tool for quick communication, keeping in touch with employees who were laid off and getting out important updates in a fast changing environment. Can't stress enough how easy it is to onboard staff across multiple properties with different tech skills levels, languages, backgrounds etc. Anyone that has used FB or sent a text message can use this platform.

Nachteile

Very few complaints about this product. My biggest one would be the Forms module they offer. While the forms themselves function and look nice there is really no back end built out so you end up having to export to Excel or use Zapier which can get expensive if moving volume, for example having 1000 people fill out a Covid pre-screening form everyday. We basically just use a MS Forms link under the Navigation Extensions which is a good workaround and gives us the dynamic data rendering we need.

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Vorteile

Easy to use for every employee from CEO to the mechanic, from pc to the mobile phone
Cloud plattform, no IT support necessary
Interface for fast and easy access

Nachteile

We did not found any negatives features or support at this time

Vorteile

Beekeeper is very helpful for our organisation and invitation of internal trainings as well as for the improvement of the communication between all our employees.

Nachteile

In general there is nothing we don't like. There are sometimes features which can be improved but the product management of Beekeeper takes care of those issues.

Vorteile

Beekeeper helped us to align the internal communication in an aligned and engaging way. We like to say that "The sun never sets on JENSEN", meaning that there is always a team of JENSEN staff at work. This means also that there is no single hour where we can reach all teams at once. With Beekeeper, we can reach out to all our team members and enter into a real dialogue with them. What I like most is the modern way of interaction, the modular set-up of the individual streams and the dashboard functionalities.

Nachteile

It's a detail, yet I dont' want to keep this space void: I am not fond of the way how our key visuals for the streams are being displayed. The title of the stream is written all over the key visual. I fail to understand what is so difficult about changing this and ensuring that the key visual is visible.

Vorteile

It's easy to handle, no complicated log-ins, everyone knows how to post something from the beginning including videos and photos, little explanation needed, administration of users is easy, social media possibilities provided by Beekeeper are very varied, support is always available and quick to respond, surveys can be done quickly, reach a wide audience in virtual time

Nachteile

Search function for posts is a little slow

Vorteile

All of it: the simplicity of user management and platform customisation, the easy of use, the aesthetics and much much more. The platform is perfect for reaching lots of people very fast. It has revolutionised communication at our organisation.

Nachteile

There is nothing I don't like however I think the platform could benefit from additional features. Calling/ video calling would be amazing. A better search function/ library of content. Better integration with other platforms to enable automated user management. Status updates for holiday, days off etc.

Vorteile

Secure exchange of sensitive data by replacing WhatsApp: There were employees who previously refused to download WhatsApp to their mobile phones due to lack of data security. WhatsApp didn't separate work from home.

Nachteile

Nothing. Easy to use and to install. Attrative pricing model.

Vorteile

The rollout of Beekeeper was quite easy. We did not had any problems at all. After presenting the tool at the employee assembly, we just had to push the bottom and everybody received his login and could use the platform.

Furthermore the customer support always gives you a helping hand, if you have any problems using Beekeeper or any technical issues.

Beekeeper is very easy to use. Almost everybody knows how to use the platform. Even those who are not talented with technical programs, understand it thanks to the good usability.

Nachteile

There is no app for tablets.
There is a newsletter-plugin, where you can link postings from beekeeper and send it to the users via email. Unfortunately you can not link postings which have a video attached.

Vorteile

+ Easy tool (like WA) for employees travelling and working at different location.
+ Easy to use
+ Reduces amount of e-mails needed

Nachteile

- there are no major issues with Beekeeper

Vorteile

As it's very easy to handle - all of our employees use it. As most of our employees do not work on a fix location to fix times - it's the best tool for us to inform all of them at the same time.

Nachteile

Not beeing able to search for posts in the app.

Vorteile

It's very easy to use and the basic funktioalities are working perfectly well.
You can use Beekeeper on a smartphone as well as on a computer, that's very convenient. And the backend/dashboard is very easy to understand. Good analytics and functionalities like the worker bees or campaigns are very useful.

Nachteile

Sometimes it's a bit slow, f.e. the search function. And we miss some small things like to be able to download videos from posts. But that's "peanuts".

Vorteile

We like most the possibility to reach our whole community throughout several chanels and devices. We all work at the same place, but all the different schedules and working times makes the complete communication very hard. The webbades software and the app match the needs of these days.

Nachteile

Knowing other social plattforms (Facebook, Twitter a.s.o.) one misses some features that are not given in this software (for ex. not only "likes", but "don't likes" or "frownies"). You automatically compare the products of social media.

Vorteile

Super good platform to post pictures and videos, create message threads and cross-organization communication.

Nachteile

The colours and the look-and-feel is not the prettiest, maybe if there were more possibilities to change the display it would be even more fun

Vorteile

It's easy to keep employees in the loop, user friendly and is nice to have so we dont need to use social media.

Nachteile

Sometimes the notifications are delayed and i don't get them

Vorteile

It connects all of our Team Members. Each user has instant communication and ability to stay informed and engaged.

Nachteile

Works best with smart phones as opposed to PC.

Vorteile

Its ease of use, its simplicity and the fact that it allows us to connect all our employees together, regardless of where they work or if they have access to a computer.

Nachteile

I think we can improve some functionalities to allow for more personalisation, such as more flexibility in choosing streams you want to have or not.
I would also like to enhance the analytics and the search on mobile.

Vorteile

I like that it's quick and easy to get notifications from management. They can also share pictures or success stories. It keeps everyone engaged.

Nachteile

It's got more than I think I need - I haven't utilized all the features. I'm not a full-time employee though and it's a large company, so I think if you were, you might appreciate the extra information and features.

Vorteile

That it is easy to use and that it has an experience this is like Facebook - so ppl feel familiar

Nachteile

I miss a feature for automatic translation

Vorteile

you can implement Beekeeper without much effort. Easy to use. You don't need training.

Nachteile

You can not send videos in chats.

Vorteile

- Usability: adoption among our employees is high
- many integrations with other systems
- onboarding of new employees quite easy
- analytics tool helps to identify how the app is used by the employees

Nachteile

- process of how to propose new features could be more transparent

Vorteile

I like this software because it is a communication platform where all colleagues can be informed about everything happening around them. In most work environments communication lacks and things go out of place. Beekeeper is a great software to keep everyone in the loop with everything and its very easy to use.

Nachteile

There is nothing that comes to mind that I didn't like.

Vorteile

Design is simple, intuitive and onboarding is very easy. Dashboard provides a good overview of all activities.

Nachteile

Almost nothing to remark. Dashboard is not designed for mobile equipment (phnones. tablets).

Vorteile

We like how easy it is to communicate amongst each other no matter the distance. It has built camaraderie amongst team members that most likely would have never developed as quickly.

Nachteile

There's not much, but we would say that the features whether your on your phone or other devices should be more similar.

Vorteile

The personal support and the ease of use of the application

Nachteile

Actually nothing, everything worked. There are some features that would be great to have, like the possibility the create content pages.

Vorteile

Easy handling. Direct information to all of our employee.

Nachteile

Nothing. I didn't find something until know.

Vorteile

I like that Beekeeper helps keep all of our various departments on the same page about a variety of topics, as well as making it easy for them to share more light-hearted content and kudos to each other.

Nachteile

I wish Beekeeper could sync with Asana or some other task management software, or at the very least have the ability to flag messages, as in my communications I often come across a task that I'll need to remember and complete, but once the message is read, it's hard to find that reference again.

Vorteile

We love that everyone in all 10 of our stores and Warehouse can be kept up to date on every aspect of our business. Weather launching a new product, giving Kudos to someone, communicating about IT issues with our POS system, or celebrating someone's Birthday, everyone is informed! We also love the chat feature so that managers and have a private chat with just their team. And the fact that we can have everyone "like" the post lets us know that they have read it! It is our best communication tool to reach everyone in our company, even if they are not working that day!

Nachteile

Nothing!! We love all of it's features and benefits!

Vorteile

Communication is now easier than ever. We (like many others) were using text messages as our main form of communication, which quickly spun out of control when other employees were replying or using a "tapback" response. After 1,000 or so messages (probably a slight exaggeration), you can expect people to stop looking at their phones and communication goes down the drain.

This platform allows us to communicate with our employees in a way that is familiar, fun, and positive for everyone involved.

Nachteile

There were some hiccups with the onboarding, and some features (like the PTO form) require integrating a separate service (which brings additional costs). If you're into web development, though, their API is robust and very useful.

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Vorteile

Widespread and on-the-go communication, user friendly, personalized to your company

Nachteile

I had an issue just once with uploading a big mp4 file even as an Admin (2GB is allowed). It is currently being reviewed. But otherwise, I am very satisfied with it.

Vorteile

Usability! No training needed, absolute easy to use (every employee likes working with it immediately!)

Nachteile

The app has not yet too many features (e.g. is not a task management tool). But they are constantly bringing in useful features.

Vorteile

Very easy to handle! Opportunity to display information on screens

Nachteile

There ist nothing we do not like. We have a high user rate

Vorteile

Beekeeper finally allowed us to reach out to our entire workforce, many of which are offsite and only occasionally in office locations. The days of time consuming phone calls to ensure everyone is aware of certain information are gone...
With the support of the Beekeeper project team we were able to streamline our communication process and can now timely communicate internal announcements, customer feedbacks or upcoming events, amongst other...
We look forward to push this to the next level for us, further integrating with existing applications and channeling remaining legacy communication through the beekeeper app.

Nachteile

We would like to see more functionality around formatting steams (bold, embedded links...) to make information more appealing to our employees. Further did we state the need to sync uploaded documents with a local document store / drive...

Vorteile

It's easy to use, nice layout, fast and it holds what it is promising.
We have people in 3 different languang regions and so far had no issues. The software is constantly improving and growing its possibilities.

Nachteile

We are waiting on some features, that would make our lifes even more easy. But we have no doubt, they will be implemented as soons as possible. Beekeeper is definitely working hard.

Vorteile

I LOVE this product! I love that I use it to stay in constant communication with my entire staff as well as my franchise company. It's incredibly user friendly and you can use it on the desktop as well as through the app on your phone. There's so many functionalities for it and it adapts to the needs of the user and the company that's using it.

Nachteile

The one thing I don't like about this software is that there's no calendar option. But that's just something small that I wouldn't factor in as a huge complaint.

Vorteile

The application is really easy to use

Nachteile

looking for information on past stream historic is a bit long

Vorteile

We have 120 employees across every province in Canada and were looking for a tool to group all communication and to build a strong sense of community despite the distance. We decided to implement BeeKeeper 2 months ago and are already noticing positive results.

What we liked the most about this software is the ease of use: our employees did not even need to be trained on the tool and were able to start using it right away. It is cross-platform, very intuitive and fun to use!

The team at BeeKeeper is also very helpful and supportive both during and after the implementation, taking into account our feedback and pushing new features requests.

We have a strong brand identity and it was important to personalize the tool to reflect our DNA, which we were able to do very easily with BeeKeeper.

Nachteile

The chat capabilities are a bit limited on certain platforms but the team mentioned that they are will be releasing an improved version soon.

The dashboard already has great capabilities, but we really hope that some new features will be released soon in order to help us increase the engagement of our employees.

Vorteile

The design is simple and intuitive. Learning curve is not steep making it easy to roll out, get everyone on-board, and keeping everyone actively using the app.

Nachteile

The least I liked about the software is the surveys. The survey is a powerful feature as we are able to collect responses from colleagues on any subject. However, there is a limitation. When setting up a survey, you are limited only to the pre-defined choices. Just wondering if we can also prompt a survey question where the colleague can type his response.

Vorteile

Running a busy luxury hotel takes lots of real time communication - Beekeeper bridged that gap in the most relevant, up to the minute way. It's really transformed the way people get their daily digestion of information for the day here. The ability to communicate by picture, video or polling has been quickly adopted by my team. I love that our posts have a running slideshow in our employee cafeteria to broadcast to all. It really stimulates creativity and camaraderie with the staff. The best part of all is the HUMAN customer support - one of the customer representatives helped us launch, adopt and embrace its functionality (like a really cool friend).

Nachteile

We are still getting used to all its features, so far so good. Cleaning up posts by administrators is laborious...maybe we can post with a feature of selecting how many days its up? Id love an archive of tagged posts if possible.

Vorteile

- Game changer for communication in hotels were the majority of staff are traditionally not connected via email.
- Intuitive user interface
- Ability to broadcast feeds on a communication monitor
- Interactivity - ability to comment, like, poll users
- Opening a hotel is a labor of love and life changing experience. Beekeeper helped link everyone and allowed us to share with the entire team the many different moving parts that went into bringing this property to life.
- Mobile - allows our team members to capture and share what is occurring at work in real time.

Nachteile

- Limited features - platform is almost too simple. Would like to see some additional features. I often compare Beekeeper to Facebook for work and features this site offers.
- Lack of a calendar feature - Would be ideal if there were a calendar feature where events could be posted, users could be invited and could RSVP for events.

Vorteile

It only needs a handful of active people to post and they pull everybody else along. Even those who said they would never make use of it, start liking and commenting posts and even write their own posts after a short while.
Beekeeper is a great and fun tool to connect with colleagues, share information, and communicate directly via chat.
Beekeeper is easy to install and does not need a lot of explanation.

Nachteile

The desktop version could have some more editing tools for posts (emojis, bold text, picture resize).

Vorteile

Our practice LOVES Beekeeper and I honestly can't imagine work life without it. The convenience this app provides for our practice is outstanding. The ability to communicate with all of our staff on one platform is the best feature.

Nachteile

Although we love this software, we wish there was an easy to use scheduling option.

Vorteile

Ease of use
Quick to deploy
Available on various devices (TV Screens, laptop, IOS phones, ...)

Nachteile

It would be great to have voice added to Beekeeper

Vorteile

The software is easy to use and extremely functional.

We would not be able to be what we are... with Beekeeper!

Nachteile

Nothing about it gives us any issues at all.

Vorteile

It is very similar in ease of use to the most popular social media platforms. Beekeeper allows colleagues to communicate through pictures, video, polls, and simple posts.

Nachteile

I manage the Beekeeper access for my workplace and there are some things that could make it a little easier on the admin side for adding and managing users that would require less clicks and navigation.

Vorteile

The Set up of Beekeeper is quick and uncomplicated.

Nachteile

As there are a lot of messages in our group chats, it sometimes happens that certain information is overlooked.

Vorteile

Beekeeper has really enhanced our ability to communicate effectively with a large as dispersed workforce. We are also very pleased with the connections that are being made across departments and throughout our organization. Beekeeper is supporting our effort to build one team of many functional units.

Vorteile

- Easy to use
- Many ways of communication within the app
- The use of labels to find messages

Nachteile

- That there ist no possibility to insert pictures in the comments
- It would be great if there was an internal calendar (for example, as a separate stream) on which each Beekeeper user could access and even appoint appointments.