Jostle’s People Engagement® platform is a new kind of employee intranet. It’s simple, work-relevant approach delivers employee participation rates of over 85%, as measured across all Jostle customers. That’s 5X industry norms.
Includes a full suite of workplace communication tools: share news, plan events, engage in a strategic team discussion. Also includes enterprise-grade instant messaging (chat).
Connects workplaces and helps bring workplace culture alive. Clarifies who is doing what, finds hidden expertise, and provides a powerful employee directory, which also works on your phone.
Surfaces key documents, videos and files and organizes them into easy-to-navigate volumes. Content ownership is clear and curation tools are built in. Files can be viewed at your desktop, or on your phone.
Jostle’s patented TEAMS® technology makes it easy to target information, or start a chat, with exactly the right people. This reduces information clutter and creates an intranet that is relevant to each individual.
Jostle’s platform is turnkey – easy to implement and maintain. Full support is included.
Pros
Easy to use and setup with good support from the on-boarding team and regular catch-ups over the time period. The library is a great tool with good security and functionality. Staff member profiles, that we integrate with G-Suite are helpful and enable users to customize themselves and their images as well as professional profiles.
The news section is easy to add and manage the posts as well as items for sale and internal vacancies. The search function is excellent and returns a good set of relevant results to all users from all areas.
The Admin area is well laid out and easy to follow with a good range of depth and when you want to do something not available the support team can help you out.
Allowing internal and external users means our board members can see what is going on inside of the organisation without death by email.
Cons
Would be nice to have threaded discussions. Creates a number of library groups in g-suite and does not do a great job of cleaning up after itself when groups are removed, unused or empty.
Pros
We implemented Jostle in order to keep our company's culture alive and keep employees connected as we rolled out our work at home initiative. We loved how easy it was to set up, how intuitive it is to use and how fun it can be. I describe the news page as is "Facebook and Twitter had a baby" because there are sections for brief updates and longer articles, and as soon as employees get in, they already feel like they know how to use the program.
Cons
It does take champions to keep people engaged and logging in. Also, the discussions -- rather like a workplace-appropriate chat room for project or task oriented conversations -- did not work as well for us as we had hoped it would because people needed more prompts to go back in and view updated comments.
its been fine, its ease of use is nice, and many of the features and tools are handy has well. its a decent to tool to communciate with those in your whole company.
Pros
it is easy to post articles to it, the google intergration is nice, makes it easy to set up accounts and log in with for endusers. One of the best parts i would say is the people sections, it is nice cause it allows you see everyone from your company and this is nice when you have several offices like i do.
Cons
when posting articles some more and better customization would be nice, some more features would be good as well.
If you are looking for an intranet that is simple for your employees to use and doesn't require hours of administration from your IT technical team, this is the product for you. However, if you are looking for a product that can be highly customised to match your corporate brand and standard processes, keep on looking. As there are few configuration options, every implementation of Jostle will look the same whichever organisation is using it.
For those people who are regular users of social media, it has a recognisable interface and navigation is easy and intuitive. Because of this users require little or no training. Jostle provide extensive support during the initial implementation, although not much its needed.
The highlight of the Jostle intranet is the People section that allows users to quickly find staff and see their position within the organisation represented in a clear graphical way. It has excellent fuzzy logic when searching for names and common nicknames; for example a search for "Robert" would also display result for "Bob", "Rob", "Bobby" and any other alternative.
On the downside, there is trade off between simplicity of use and simplicity of function. Some areas of the product do not have the advanced functionality that other hosted intranet applications have. The Discussion section feels like a recent addition without the level of sophistication that one would normally expect to see within a mature product.
So, if your organisation wants a simple, easy to use, easy to implement intranet and you are prepared to work within the boundaries set by the product, Jostle can be the ideal solution.
Our facility uses the software multiple times a day, everyday, and we love the connection it provides amongst our staff. I am one of the main news reporters, I only have a few concerns- one being the limited color options. Also, the layout of the body in an article changes once you publish it. It is not very easy to insert images into the body. The pictures and words are always shifting. This could be operator error, but we have had several people comment on this. I am a newer user, so some of this may come together more in time, but as for a beginner- most things are pretty easy to pick up with very little training. Another concern is that we would like the ability to add video clips if possible. As far as we know, this is not an option at this point. At one point, when you would click on a particular person's bio tab, the words would pop out at you all over the screen. Our office really liked that option, and wonders if that will be available again? Last, we recently set up and event with a recurring date. We ended up wanting to take the recurring date off the original event published, and it would not let us without deleting the whole event and starting over. By doing that, we deleted all the people that had already rsvp'd for that event. These are all small things we have noted. Again we love the software, and what it does to connect our employees.
Hi Jennifer - thanks for the feedback, please contact our Customer Success team for help on how to add video and your other requests.
Pricing is per employee per month. Check out https://www.jostle.me/pricing for more detailed pricing information.
Drives employee engagement and workplace culture.
Shares workplace stories and celebrations.
Recognizes workplace anniversaries and birthdays.
Enables simple peer-peer recognition.
Surfaces key documents & videos. Makes it easy to keep them current and organized.
Uncovers hidden expertise. Make it easy to find people by name, role, location, expertise, etc.
Connects employees and encourages participation.
Pushes out initiatives, announcements, safety notices, etc. in a reliable way.
Targets information to the right people to reduce noise (information clutter).
Simple and elegant. Turnkey with no employee training required. Can be implemented without in-house IT skills.
Below are some frequently asked questions for Jostle.
Jostle offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: USD 10.00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Pricing is per employee per month. Check out https://www.jostle.me/pricing for more detailed pricing information.
Jostle offers the following features:
Jostle has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business
Jostle supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Jostle has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
Jostle supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone
Jostle integrates with the following applications:
BambooHR, Bonusly, Capabiliti, FinancialForce HCM, G Suite, Okta, OneLogin, Saba Learning, SuccessFactors, Twitter
Jostle offers the following support options:
FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
An intranet that engaged the staff and is one place to find out news/olds/information and who is who inside the business. A place where users can come and see themselves in the business, who and what they are and how they fit in.