What is an employee engagement app?

An employee engagement app is a single place where a company's staff hear from the business, recognise each other, and get reached in an emergency. It matters most for deskless and frontline workers, who have no company laptop and no company inbox, so email and intranet reach them last or not at all. The Corp pillar covers recognition, chat, events, safety alerts and step challenges in one app.

Is OneNect branded for our company?

A subscription gets its own sign-up and its own tenant. Setting the colours and the logo per customer is decided and scheduled rather than shipped: the tenant configuration holds both fields and the app does not read them yet, so branding is set at build time today. We would rather say that now than at a demonstration.

How does OneNect reach staff who do not have a work email?

Through the app itself, on the phone the worker already carries. Alerts arrive as push notifications rather than email, which is the difference that matters for a deskless workforce. Emergency alerts can be sent to one site or to the whole company.

Can OneNect connect to the software we already run?

Yes. Integrations are switched on per company from the admin centre, so each customer enables only what it uses rather than inheriting a fixed set. The service desk is the worked example: departments and their intake forms are read live from the desk the company already runs.

How much does OneNect cost for a company?

OneNect for a company is sold as a subscription priced per company rather than as a free consumer download. Pricing depends on headcount and on which integrations are enabled.

OneNect, for a company

Week oneEverybody installs it.
Month threeThe notifications get muted.
The renewalNobody can say who still opens it.

So Corp is not a second app. It is the company floor of OneNect itself.

Every engagement platform starts by asking a workforce to install something, then spends the rest of the contract persuading them to open it again. Corp is a pillar on OneNect, the app built for family and friends, so the workplace is a section of an app a person keeps for their own reasons. That is a decision about shape rather than a longer feature list, and a longer feature list is not an answer to it.

Corp is the pillar that runs today: the app, the admin centre and the API. OneNect itself, the app the pillar sits on, is in build. The band below says so on every visit.

See the screens

Built

Built and running. Corp is the product that exists today: the app, the admin centre and the API. Every screen below is a real screen of it, rendered from the Meridian Group demonstration tenant.

What it does

The company floor,
on a phone.

Meridian Group makes seals in Rotterdam, Antwerp, Monterrey and Penang. Everything below is rendered from that tenant's own seeded content: its people, its values, its store, its orders, its alerts.

Just meMy deptGlobal

Share something with everyonePhotosPollKudosEventAs Meridian Group

Anneke de Vries recognised Lucia Ferreira

Lucia stopped a batch on her own judgement, three hours before the audit, and she was right. That is the whole value in one shift.

Make it right

LFLucia FerreiraQuality Technician, Penang Plant

A auditoria de Penang terminou hoje sem uma única não conformidade. Ficámos até tarde ontem a refazer o registo do lote 4412 e valeu a pena.

Translated from the originalThe Penang audit closed today without a single non-conformance. We stayed late yesterday redoing the batch 4412 record and it was worth it.

2 reactions

The all-site day happens once a year and it moves. Where should the next one be?

Rotterdam1

Antwerp2

Monterrey1

Penang2

6 votes

Live markup, not a screenshot. Every value on it is seeded in Meridian Group.

The feed

Recognition that lands where the work happened

Posts, photos, polls and comments, scoped to as much of the company as a person wants to see: just me, my department, my location, my country, my region, or all of it. Recognition is a post with a company value attached, so praise is filed against what the business says it stands for instead of disappearing into a separate app nobody opens.

Six scope levels
Post as yourself, your department or the company
Ten languages, translated in place

Just meMy deptGlobal

Share something with everyonePhotosPollKudosEventAs Meridian Group

Anneke de Vries recognised Lucia Ferreira

Lucia stopped a batch on her own judgement, three hours before the audit, and she was right. That is the whole value in one shift.

Make it right

LFLucia FerreiraQuality Technician, Penang Plant

A auditoria de Penang terminou hoje sem uma única não conformidade. Ficámos até tarde ontem a refazer o registo do lote 4412 e valeu a pena.

Translated from the originalThe Penang audit closed today without a single non-conformance. We stayed late yesterday redoing the batch 4412 record and it was worth it.

2 reactions

The all-site day happens once a year and it moves. Where should the next one be?

Rotterdam1

Antwerp2

Monterrey1

Penang2

6 votes

Steps

It is called Move, and that is a deliberate choice

A step count is health data, so the section is not called Health and nothing is counted, shown or ranked until a person turns it on themselves. Reading the phone's health record is a second, separate permission that takes one number a day, the total, and never a route, a location or a workout. Joining a challenge is what puts somebody on a board. Leaving takes them straight back off it.

Three separate consents
One number a day from the health record
Nobody is ranked by default

The Plant Challenge

01Priya VenkatesanPune Engineering Centre165,460

02Yuki TanabeMeridian Rotterdam145,370

03Carmen SolisChicago Sales Office131,790

04Elena NovakAntwerp Works127,750

Seven players across four sites, each with fourteen seeded days. Ranked from the step rows, not stored as a rank, and totalled over the days inside the contest window.

Emergency

One button, held for three and a half seconds

Code Red alerts up to four people chosen in advance, with a live location, and shows who answered. A colleague gets it as an alarm on their own phone and can say they are on their way. Separately, an authorised administrator can send a facility alert that sounds through silent mode and a Focus, and opens straight onto the screen where a person marks themselves safe.

Hold 3.5 seconds, release to cancel
Sounds through silent and Focus
Acknowledgements are counted, not assumed

Supply

Kit that costs the person nothing and the cost centre something

Meridian Supply is workwear and safety equipment, charged back to a cost centre rather than paid for. An order carries its own event timeline from placed through approved, allocated, picked, packed and shipped, with the carrier and tracking on it, and the freight and duty added as named fees. The same order desk also runs a points-priced rewards shelf where a tenant wants one.

Chargeback by cost centre
Order events, not an order status
Lot and movement level inventory

x1Safety boots, composite toeMetal-free, so they pass the detector at gate two112.75

x2Cut-resistant gloves, level DThe grade required for edge handling on lines 1 to 347.20

Charged to the cost centre

ShippingRotterdam to Penang, consolidated22.40

Customs dutyMalaysia import duty, protective equipment11.15

Chargeback totalNothing here costs you money193.50

PlacedApprovedAllocatedPickedPackedShipped

DHL, MG-7741-PEN, to Lucia Ferreira at Penang Plant

Integrations

A request that opens a ticket in the system IT already runs

The Service Hub is a window onto the company's own service desk. Departments and their intake forms are read from that desk, so a department created there on a Tuesday afternoon is on this screen on Tuesday afternoon and the app is never rebuilt for it. If the desk cannot be reached, the screen says so rather than drawing a department list that is not real.

Thirteen categories, four priorities
Ask in your own words, no form
The desk's own status words are carried through

The vocabulary

What OneNect for a company calls things

A personcolleague

A groupdepartment

A gatheringevent

A placesite

The feedEngage

The directoryorg chart

About forty nouns change per product. Documented in the platform plan, not yet enforced by the apps. See them side by side.

Corp runs today

Ask to see it with your own words in the screens.

Tell us roughly how many people, how many sites, and what you use now. We will put your own vocabulary into the product and show you that, and say plainly which parts are finished and which are not. There is nothing to join and no list to be on.

hello@onenect.app

Every capability, across the base and all three pillars, including the ones a pillar deliberately does not get and why.