In my own companies, I've personally made many attempts at gathering feedback from the team. There's this pattern of a high engagement rate in the beginning where I've seen as high as 100% of the team participate, then it tapers down to less then 30%. By polling the team via Slack using a product like Subcurrent, I can imagine that participation rate staying quite a bit higher over time. That would be great!
@hnshah Thanks for posting Hiten! That's exactly the problem we're trying to solve - making feedback super simple and within the flow of your work so it doesn't feel like an extra task to get done
@liveink thanks! We got interested in this space after our experiences at both large companies and small ones, where we thought the team wasn't always on the same page as it scaled. Polls are an easy to way to aggregate feedback, but as @hnshah mentioned above it's hard to get engagement. We wanted to build a product that was within the typical workflow so it doesn't feel like an extra burden. Slack felt to us to be the workflow of the future after using it at our last company and that's why we went with it!
@liveink definitely thinking about them and they would be a logical next step. We do currently work with plain ol' email, you can sign up here:
https://www.getsubcurrent.com/no...
@brentbrookler A few things:
(a) Slack! :) In all seriousness, we are multi-platform and can allow mixed teams where different departments might have different primary communication methods.
(b) We allow unlimited tagging of users to allow you to get really nice breakdowns and segmentation across large teams. Some of our customers love the granularity of queries like "Managers in the Bay Area Office are happier than managers in the Seattle Office"
(c) We have social network-like features that allow coworkers to have anonymized discussions with each other and management instead of simply top-down feedback.
(d) Anybody can propose topics for an upcoming poll and have that be the question that's sent out, again enabling feedback from all sections of the organization
@brentbrookler Additionally, some feedback we got early on before Slack was that it was too painful to have an entire company sign up for yet another tool. With Slack, one person at the company signs up (should take <3 min), and everyone else gets onboarded without having to learn a new workflow.
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