Jostle

Jostle: Employees Engagement Cloud Solution.

Commentaires : It improves team collaboration which boost productivity in my organization.

Avantages :

Jostle platform enables us (teams) in my organization to work together on the same projects, share files and ideas in one place.

Inconvénients :

Even though Jostle offers a free trial for 30 days, it lacks freemium version.

Jostle for real estate

Commentaires : We use this as a storage solution and for publishing news articles

Avantages :

There is a lot of functionality, and it is easy to navigate

Inconvénients :

There are a lot of things that are not needed

It works for what we use it for. Tasks feature kinda failed.

Commentaires : It has streamlined some of our communication. It's certainly reliable and secure.

Avantages :

It's consistent and reliable for the news articles we post to our staff. It doesn't fail when we post things like several of our other online software.

Inconvénients :

It's editable text boxes aren't all that complete. You can do basic editing, but not much. I wish we were able to have more options to control our view.

Could not love Jostle more!

Commentaires : I LOVE Jostle, so much so, that I've done several demos for clients who are looking to sign up and they're always super impressed with how much we post and the engagement of our team! I would hate to switch intranets.

Avantages :

Signing up with Jostle has cut back significantly on non-work related emails in the inbox. It allows our committees and event coordinators the freedom and access to post as things are happening. The ease of creating and posting is a HUGE asset.

Inconvénients :

Adding librarians is a bit cumbersome as well as the Teams section. Our HR admin doesn't feel it's user-friendly.

Makes work fun!

Avantages :

The way Jostle is set up creates a warm and familiar workspace, which is much needed in the era of remote work. Sharing content and accessing it is simple and adds a social media-like flavor to the working environment. It's pretty straightforward and looks like it can be integrated with most types of businesses without a problem.

Inconvénients :

As fun as the content management system is, it is possible for it to get quite messy without proper use from admins. Perhaps there can be intuitive guides for admins on how to keep things neat, relevant and organized. (Color coding?)

I just can’t get on board with Jostle

Commentaires : Not good...I miss Workplace.

Avantages :

I wish I could have positives about Jostle. If I had to come up with one, it would be having multiple columns viewable at a glance.

Inconvénients :

Using the website on my phone is unnerving to say the least. Through the website on my phone, I can’t even post updates half of the time. Pictures don’t want to update, the news feed gets stuck. Now I will say...these issues only happen on my iPhone. However, I have verified on other phones and co-workers say it happens to them on their mobile devices as well.

Great software!!

Commentaires : Customer support provide quick responses really help. Account manager and senior support have also been great.

Avantages :

Very easy to integrate with our business and has grown and improved as our needs have. Very user friendly, mobile app access is super simpleAllows us to easily connect and engage with all our employeesAllows us to share information, announcements, job postings and so much more..

Inconvénients :

Permissions, security settings and access setup could be improved.

Jostle is a great platform for a simple intranet

Commentaires : Great!

Avantages :

The ease of use, ease of setup, quick to standup. The usability of the platform is great, minimal training required.

Inconvénients :

Not sure, it works for the level of intranet that we wanted.

Engaging Intranet

Commentaires : 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.

Avantages :

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.

Inconvénients :

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.

Nice App, Horrible Support

Avantages :

Pretty yammer-like internal engagement and intranet application. There is document rendering, classified, team view diagrams, and more.

Inconvénients :

Spectacularly awful SSO integration support. It can be made to work but it was far more painful than any other vendor I've setup SAML authentication with. The documentation is horrible and even flat out wrong in some areas. 'Custom' domains are problematic (see SSO complaint above). Support and professional onboarding often consists of an email referencing aforementioned cruddy support documentation. They can (and will) setup platform breaking changes at a night's notice. This type of thoughtless customer engagement is what is prompting this review in fact.

Want more specific features

Avantages :

Ease of accessibility for all employees.

Inconvénients :

Lack of the ability to make our Jostle landing page more original with more custom links and logos.

Effective and easy to use

Commentaires : As a HR practitioner, it's been a very useful tool. We can measure engagement, it is easy to set up and manage employees, and it is very user friendly.

Avantages :

Navigating is easy. Creating posts is very straightforward. You can also schedule posts, which is very useful.

Inconvénients :

I don't really love the birthday message bit and how that's what comes up first on the app.

Una fabulosa herramienta.

Commentaires : Mi experiencia fue muy positiva en si la experiencia de uso es muy buena lo acompleja todas las herramientas que posee como la sala de espera en mi punto hasta económica es me fascina la recomiendo.

Avantages :

En si la herramienta es muy buena para que los empleados puedan ser escuchados y puedan aportar sus opiniones y que en realidad sientan que son importantes para nuestra institución ya que el software incluye lo esencial y es completo.

Inconvénients :

Pero no les encuentro todo esta muy excelente me gusto como va la herramienta y es un gran acierto para cada empresa que la use.

We Love Jostle!

Commentaires : Jostle keeps our team engaged and in the know. A majority of our team is logged into Jostle at least once a day, and are constantly interacting and posting on the site. We have all of our team events posted in Jostle, celebrations both personal and professional, and we are able to maintain the feel of a tight-knit community even though we have people working with us across the country. I can't imagine Megson FitzPatrick Insurance without Jostle!

Avantages :

The Activity/News Feed is our favourite feature. The ability to export the feeds into an excel document is especially helpful - if we have a team member who gets recognized for outstanding work either by a colleague or client review, they get entered to win a prize. At the end of the month, I export the activity feed and put everyone into a draw. Jostle is fairly intuitive, which makes it easy for employees of all abilities to use.

Inconvénients :

I wish there was a way to make the news articles more custom (either with formatting options, font colours or types etc). I also find the Library section a little strange - lots of layers (categories, volumes, etc) and you have to individually assign people's editing abilities to each category and volume.

An intuitive intranet

Commentaires : Jostle has changed the way we communicate at Emperor. It gives a sense of belonging to our partners and acts as a great onboarding tool for new starters. I never get tired of hearing "It's on Jostle!".

Avantages :

Shout-outs are perfect for quick recognition or to draw attention to one particular piece of information. The News articles keep our partners informed and up to date with company-wide information. Teams and People means we can quickly see who's who and where people sit in the organisational structure.

Inconvénients :

The look and feel of the Classifieds section is poor compared to the rest of the intranet. It means that we don't currently use this. Having to add a new user AND then having to add them to Teams separately is time-consuming. I wish this was automated from the 'add new user' feature.

Super helpful!

Commentaires : We implemented Jostle in 2019 and we are so glad we had this in place for when the pandemic happened! Jostle has been a lifesaver for when our company had to go remote and for hiring new staff virtually as well. It's been such a great platform to communicate and connect with staff the past few years. Jostle was easy to set up and implement and the customer support has been outstanding. We are so pleased with the whole Jostle package!

Avantages :

The software was so easy to use and implement. Jostle can be used for so many things! Of course we used it for our staff directory, communication pieces and for useful documents, but we also used it for planning fun events and contests to keep staff engaged. The site is very colorful and eye-catching, staff really enjoy accessing Jostle!

Inconvénients :

Sometimes we had glitches with uploading documents, but always got customer support when needed. The news section has some limited capacity for typing up information into articles but I know that an update will be coming to fix that.

Jostle Keeps us Connected

Avantages :

This helps stay connected to our staff. We can publish exciting news along with important information. We vary the content so as not to become boring for our younger staff. We can track who is reading what information. A great directory of policy and procedures for our staff to be able to access.

Inconvénients :

Directory can be difficult to navigate

A dedicated team and customer service makes a difference

Commentaires : We've implemented and used the Jostle platform for almost three years, and since starting, with my current organization, I've been working with the Jostle team quite closely. The Jostle team is very responsive, and dedicated to providing great customer service and support. The 400+ employees at our organization have varying degrees of technical savviness. One main challenge we have is teaching them the essence of great internal communication and content sharing in moving the company towards our business objectives. When we reached out to Jostle, they were very welcoming and embraced the idea that I had pitched them in order to help our employees familiarize themselves. That was, a digital workshop. Two members of the team built a presentation and workbook, then led a two hour session at our company's digital workshop. They were amazing as you can tell how invested they are with all of this training, and ensuring that our employees are utilizing the Jostle platform to its fullest potential. Other than the staff at Jostle, I thought that they are very responsive with customer feedback. They are always taking suggestions from their users and if it makes sense, the feature becomes available to Jostle users. I think that is amazing, since from my experience, most Intranet platforms are always outdated and lacking innovation. Jostle is easy to use, understand, and simple in it's features, layouts, and functionalities. I would highly recommend them.

Avantages :

Ease of use, simple to use content curation features, ability to visually represent important information in an organized fashion. Very modern and polished.

Inconvénients :

The ability to disable certain features when they aren't being used. I think reporting and metrics could be more comprehensive and visual. Maybe the integration of some sort of visual dashboard that allows for goal tracking.

Decent Company Community Page

Commentaires : 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.

Avantages :

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.

Inconvénients :

when posting articles some more and better customization would be nice, some more features would be good as well.

Jostle

Commentaires : good, it does what we want.

Avantages :

I like that only our company has access to it, and it seems to be safe

Inconvénients :

when I open the web page on my phone, the screen does not fit and I have trouble looking for things even if i rotate the phone the page does not appear as a whole I wish the "poll" option was to give alert times when the "poll" is about to end

If all you want is to post employee photos then this is the thing for you

Avantages :

Our company needed a photo directory of employees and that's what this served as. A virtual Rolodex for internal needs.

Inconvénients :

The capabilities at the time (2015-2017) were not the best. I'm not sure if they have updated it much but trying to make changes were not simple and it just wasn't robust enough as an intranet. Trying to configure it so that it would be aesthetically pleasing and simple to navigate just wasn't happening unfortunately.

Great platform with fantastic support!

Commentaires : I've worked with the Jostle platform for a year and a half and have had many good experiences and business successes. I cannot rate enough how great it is to have a knowledgeable and helpful designated account manager (Sally Smith) who is my main point of contact and is always happy to discuss our platform use and suggest new ways of working along with answering any queries I have. This makes our user experience of Jostle align with our business strategy and values, as well as ensuring we continue to optimise the platform when new changes are introduced. I also rate the forum very highly as it's great to be able to discuss thoughts/ideas/best practice with other Jostle users outside of our organisation - and it's great that conversations on the forum are heard by the Jostle team and often make their way into the Jostle newsletter and ultimately influence platform developments and changes.

Avantages :

The ease of use, how the interface resembles social media and encourages full company engagement

Inconvénients :

Some of the areas on the platform are not relevant to our business, but there is not anything we can do to reallocate these sections into something more appropriate. It means the sections remain unused. (not a massive issue as we tend to focus our attention on the News section anyway)

Intranet done right!

Commentaires : We have been using Jostle for a few years. It has transformed how our employees interact with each and how we share files. Our company is disbursed across the US and it sometimes feels like you are on an island all by yourself. Having a central place to log in to for news and important files really helps our employees feel like part of the fold. The picture directory is great and the shout out feed as well. The admin section can be a little confusing but that is it. We've also been able to get some new features added to support our company. The customer service is GREAT. It's a great product, it is actively developed and the customer service is top tier. Don't hesitate to sign up.

Avantages :

G-Suite integration Easy to use Actively developed Picture directory Interactive Org Chart

Inconvénients :

The admin section can be confusion The Library can be confusing to navigate

Easy, colorful, fun!

Avantages :

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.

Inconvénients :

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.

Daily companywide information platform

Avantages :

I’m a general user of Jostle where I can get all the company information and new daily articles or updates that get posted. It helps me keep up to date about the company and colleagues. Also, I can post articles and appreciate colleagues on the platform.

Inconvénients :

UI of the software is not very intuitive and it’s a bit confusing and slow. I don’t like the fact that whenever I need to download something, I actually have to open it in the new tab and then download (Maybe it’s something that our company has set-up, but I hate it)