Employee communication tools
- Person-to-person channels on the team
- 66
- Computed on this page from the inputs below
- People each person must be reachable by
- 11
- Computed on this page from the inputs below
- Pairs a manager-only broadcast never covers
- 55
- Computed on this page from the inputs below
Every figure on this page is computed from the inputs entered, by the method stated below it. EmployeeDeskHQ publishes no acknowledgement rate, no engagement benchmark and no response-time standard: the defaults are a worked example to replace with your own team's figures.
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The figures above start from a worked example (66). Change any input and the answer updates as you type.
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Employee communication tools are judged on one figure the org chart never shows: a team of 12 contains 66 person-to-person channels, and the manager sits on 11 of them, so the other 55 run on whatever rules the team has actually agreed. This tool works those figures from your own headcount and turns them into the guidelines a small team can sign: which channel carries what, the expected response time in working hours, what silence means, and which messages must be acknowledged rather than merely sent. It runs free, on the page, with no account.
The arithmetic nobody writes down
A team of 12 contains 66 person-to-person channels and a manager-only broadcast covers 11 of them. The tool works those figures from your own headcount, and they are the case for employee communication tools with rules attached: most communication runs on channels no org chart shows, under whatever the team has actually agreed.
Channel jobs and response expectations
Each channel gets one stated job, and the team agrees what a working-hours response means, in hours you enter. What silence means is written down too, because the most expensive misunderstandings on a small team are the ones where silence was read as agreement.
The acknowledgement rule
Most messages need no reply; the ones that must be known, the rota change, the safety notice, the policy update, carry an acknowledgement. The guidelines say which is which so nobody has to guess, and EmployeeDeskHQ Pro records the acknowledgements when the rule fires.
Employee communication tools: common questions
What do employee communication tools have to do?
Three things: write the message properly, put it on the channel each person actually sees, and record who acknowledged it. This tool does the rules half; EmployeeDeskHQ Pro does the reach and the record.
Why does the person-to-person arithmetic matter?
Because most work communication runs on those channels, not on the manager's broadcasts: 66 channels on a team of 12, of which a broadcast covers 11. The guidelines exist for the other 55.
Is the output a policy document?
It is the team's working agreement, printed for signatures. Whether the handbook should reference it is your call; the tool gives you the page to attach.