# Blink Reviews **Vendor:** Blink **Category:** [Employee Communications Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/employee-communications) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 286 ## About Blink Blink is a leading employee experience platform designed to connect users to the tools, information, and actions necessary for effective work performance. Specifically tailored for frontline and deskless organizations, as well as complex and distributed workforces, Blink addresses the digital divide between desk-based and non-desk employees. This platform ensures that every worker, regardless of their work environment, has access to the resources they need to excel in their roles. The target audience for Blink includes industries where a significant portion of the workforce operates without a traditional desk, such as healthcare, transportation, logistics, manufacturing, hospitality, and retail. By providing a mobile-first digital front door, Blink unifies communications, knowledge, and workflows into a cohesive platform. This integration promotes higher adoption rates, increased productivity, and enhanced employee engagement across organizations. Unlike traditional intranet solutions or standalone communication tools, Blink facilitates actionable insights, allowing employees to not only receive information but also to engage with it effectively. Key features of Blink include a comprehensive employee communications system that offers a social-style news feed, priority posts, push notifications, newsletters, and two-way messaging. This ensures that all employees receive real-time updates and can communicate seamlessly. Additionally, Blink serves as an employee intranet, providing a centralized hub for easy access to documents, policies, HR tools, workflows, and third-party applications. This streamlined access is particularly beneficial for organizations with a diverse workforce, as it eliminates the need for a company email address or fixed workstation, allowing for quick onboarding through single sign-on (SSO) authentication and an intuitive mobile interface. Moreover, Blink enhances employee engagement through features such as peer recognition, surveys, onboarding flows, and shift scheduling. Its built-in AI capabilities improve search functionality, content creation, and analytics, enabling employees to find answers quickly and communicate more effectively. The platform has demonstrated significant impact, with customers reporting an average of seven app opens per day per user and a reduction in frontline attrition of up to 25%. Blink’s high employee activation rate of 95% and its endorsement by global organizations like McDonald's, Domino's, and Nokia underscore its effectiveness in fostering a connected and engaged workforce. Recognized as a leader in employee engagement software, Blink continues to set the standard for employee experience platforms in today's dynamic work environments. ## Blink Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Blink to be incredibly **easy to use** , fostering engagement and connection within the team effortlessly. (18 reviews) - Users value the **ease of communication** with Blink, enhancing teamwork and fostering a positive social environment. (14 reviews) - Users love Blink for its **transformative internal communication** , making connections easy and promoting a collaborative environment. (11 reviews) - Users appreciate the **transformed internal communications** Blink provides, enhancing connectivity and collaboration among front-line workers. (11 reviews) - Users appreciate the **social engagement** of Blink, fostering a positive community and seamless communication within teams. (10 reviews) - Collaboration (9 reviews) - Communication Efficiency (9 reviews) - Access Ease (6 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use and effectiveness** of Blink, enhancing team communication and collaboration effortlessly. (6 reviews) - Messaging Features (6 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **missing features** in Blink limiting, particularly the lack of Blink Forms and search capabilities. (10 reviews) - Users face **file sharing issues** and missed notifications on Blink, affecting timely updates and engagement with shared content. (6 reviews) - Users feel disappointed by the **lack of features** in Blink, limiting their ability to fully utilize the product. (6 reviews) - Users find Blink's **limited functionality** frustrating, missing essential features like Blink Forms and shared note options. (5 reviews) - Users express frustration over the **lack of notifications** , making it hard to communicate important updates effectively. (4 reviews) - Users find the **limited chat functionality** restrictive, lacking essential features like search and note sharing capabilities. (4 reviews) - Messaging Issues (4 reviews) - Feature Issues (3 reviews) - Users express concerns over **insufficient details** in Blink's training materials and limited chat functionalities, impacting usability. (3 reviews) - Limited Customization (3 reviews) ## Blink Reviews ### 1. Blinkity Fantastic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon B. | Network Performance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink is easy to use, both as and admin user and standard user. System is easy to install and has a friendliy UI. I have contacted Customer Support for requests previously through our own team and these have been looked into. I use Blink almost daily, for communicating with employees and getting updates on the business. The app has plenty of features and allows for staff to freely comment as they wish with the ability to lock posts should the need arise. It has intergrated into our business well and is a go to app for all our staff. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Some staff see the app as way for the company to monitor them but these are few and in a signifcant minority. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows for us to directly engage with all employees. Providing an oppurtunity to keep everyone up to date on the business. **Official Response from Jane:** > Simon, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 2. Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jimmy J. | Freelance Translator and Interpreter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** I like that it is a safe place for my coworkers and me to share ideas and techniques to grow as leaders while doing our jobs. I like how easy it is to post anything. I like how ready to help the customer service team is. I like the AI feature that allow me to easily integrate anything and use it every time I want. and it get implemented with no headache as well. **What do you dislike about Blink?** I would love blink to offer the opportunity to create stories not just posts. The content sometimes gets frozen before posting or loses its quality too much. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem Blink is solving for us at our company is the lack of communication and engagement at a company level. **Official Response from Jane:** > Jimmy, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with increasing communication and engagement. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 3. Great workplace engagement tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron T. | Internal Communications Coordinator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink has been great tool to reach every single colleague across the business. We have a significant number of front line workers who are either out on the road, on construction sites or operating in a warehouse, we are now able to be in the pocket of these people. **What do you dislike about Blink?** It would be great to choose from multiple reactions on comments, similar to feed posts, however, I beleive this is being implemented in a future update. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blink allows us to reach every single colleague in the business. From the CEO to the truck driver out on the road, we can be in the pockets of everyone. The app also provides a single place for consistent, regular business updates, as well as an easy way to access tools and policies for day to day working. **Official Response from Jane:** > Aaron, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact on engagement. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 4. I love staying in the loop! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shawnee S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** I love that blink allows our company to share updates, news, events, vendors, and changes within our company. I use blink atleast 3 times a day minimum. I enjoy having a central HUB area for all of my documents making files easy to locate by searching and filtering, I also really enjoy that LITERALLY everything I use in my day to day tasks can be located within Blink (Of course we had to build it out to our needs and everyone is different).Blink offers the ease of implementation making it effortless to navigate and simple to use, tailored specifically for our office environment. The customer service help option has messenger where they can connect you to a live agent and they can walk you through areas of struggle and assist you in a timely manor. If you're like me, I hate calling and being put on hold and the help desk makes it simple. Implementing Blink is a breeze due to its ease of integration, much like Facebook in my opinion when sharing posts, ensuring seamless navigation and straightforward usage within our office environment. When I need something I remind myself "Did you check blink?". If I need to make an annoucement to my collegues I ask myself "Did you Blink it?". You can also use a # at the bottom of a post to easily go back and track your posts when searching by including your # and it will pull up everything related to that specific hashtag. **What do you dislike about Blink?** I have been using BLINK for 3+ years and I have yet to find something I dislike. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blink solves questions we may have within our office. We utilize BLINK before going else where for advice or recommendations for certain scenarios. It helps our agents and staff stay on top of changes, questions, and how to's **Official Response from Jane:** > Shawnee, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 5. Communication is key, team work is free! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giovanna . | Care Champion, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Keeps you updated with what is going on in your work place and other facilities connected with you around Australia. Share ideas to others in different areas of your field. Give appreciation to collegues. Show your facilities photos and give them ideas of how you make things better in the workplace. **What do you dislike about Blink?** I have nothing to say negatively about Blink, I think its a great tool. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** the communication problem. Also the morale problem; sharing your gratitude to other co-workers boosts their morale. **Official Response from Georgie Scott:** > Giovanna, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with connecting all your facilities. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 6. Super app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Outsourcing/Offshoring | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Super helpful agents other than the app being easy to use. Its also under development thats why theres still a lot of room of more improvements **What do you dislike about Blink?** as mentioned, it is still under development, thats why in comparison to other messaging app, theres still a lot of missing tools/features. but their agents are willing to listen to these suggestions so im expecting great things from them **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly the communication and the engagement is a plus **Official Response from Ines Ferreira:** > Thank you for your 5-star review! We're thrilled that you find Blink easy to use and our team helpful. We appreciate your patience as we continue to develop and improve the platform. Your suggestions are invaluable, and we’re excited to deliver more features to enhance your experience. Thank you for choosing Blink to boost communication and engagementβ€”we’re grateful to have you on this journey with us! ### 7. An amazing tool for keeping your business up to date. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cindee K. | Business Development Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** The features that I really enjoy is any time we push out policies and procedures we don't have to have long drawn out meetings. We can push the information to each employee for them to ead and acknowledge. **What do you dislike about Blink?** I haven't really come across anything negative, we are still relatively new to the application. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have all our documentation regarding our business, HR policies and pay in one spot. You can log in to blink and find answers to all your questions. You can push out policies and procedures and have employees acknowledge them and sign them from the app. You can encourage your team and can also let the team know about any emergencies or things that are coming up. **Official Response from Jane:** > Cindee, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 8. Social Media for Signature **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannah M. | Marketing Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** I love that Blink is our own personal Signature platform! Such a great tool to be able to seperate work from personal chats whilst seeing everything that is going on around the company/in each venue. **What do you dislike about Blink?** That you can only send one photo at a time in messenger. Not a big deal though. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Removing all my work chats from my personal WhatsApp. Meaning I have more 'me' time. **Official Response from Tom Scamell:** > Hi Hannah! Thanks for your feedback - it's great to hear you're enjoying Blink! Noted on the photo - we're consistently updating our features so I'll pass it on to the product team. Tom ### 9. A great way to connect with colleagues, whilst keeping your Whatsapp personal **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** It is a very accessible platform. It is really easy to share news or company updates in a space where everyone can get involved and react! **What do you dislike about Blink?** So far, I haven't come across anything I dislike about Blink. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is allowing us to free up our personal communcation platforms, like Whatsapp. It has also become a great space to share updates and stories whether they are silly or professional. There is room for everything. **Official Response from Ines Ferreira:** > Thank you so much for your review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is providing an accessible and engaging space for company news and updates, where everyone can get involved and interact.Creating a platform that encourages team connection and participation is central to our mission, so it's wonderful to know it's working well for you. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 10. Easy to use information portal **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Blink?** Easy to use. It is easy to post into the feed. I like confidential chat and the facility to store documents in the chat as well as information in Hub. It makes it easy to reach colleagues in my organisation with key information that is relevent to them. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Blink helps you write a post using a feature called Blink Assist. Sometimes this is really helpful but if it is used too often, it becomes repetitive. **Recommendations to others considering Blink:** Turn off notifications for a single post please? We would like to acknowledge staff anniversaries (Congratulations - 1 year service etc) so would like to know if this could feed into the system to say who has a employment anniversary each morning or week- in the same was Facebook tells you when it is someone's birthday. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can communicate to the whole team, a number of teams or just a few members of a team. We have confidential team chats and store easy accessible documents. We can communicate with each other at any time and get feedback on new ideas. If there is an important message than needs to go out to the team, such as an emergency road closure, it's useful that we can send a push notification with the message. This is very important with shift workers. **Official Response from Jane:** > Thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 11. Fantastic Intranet Plaform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink has been a game changer for our organization! Since the very beginning of our relationship with Blink, we've been impressed. They implementation process was smooth, and the platform is so easy to use from a user perspective and as an admin. Our workforce is very dispersed and we were finding it hard to share updates with everyone, but Blink has connected us and overall our staff are more informed and engaged. The information is centralized and the platform itself is so similar to all other social media platforms, so the learning curve was easy. Our feed is busy, in a good way. Staff feel comfortable sharing information themselves (which has alleviated the workload for our Communciations Team), and the organization uses it to share news, important updates and all other information that is relevant to someone's job. I could go on, but overall we have been very happy and we appreciate that Blink works seamlessly on mobile and desktop. I would highly recommend this to a any company/organization with a dispersed workforce. **What do you dislike about Blink?** We've recently experienced some issues with the search function when a feed post if featured, however the issue is being addressed and the support team has been very responsive. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were struggling to get important information to all staff, and Blink has solved this communication challenge. We had found that many of our frontline staff didn't check their emails as frequently as we'd like, and Blink offers us an alternative way to stay connected. Forms, policies, HR specific requests, email can easily be accessed through the Blink mobile app which is available at all times and not reliant on our server. This was one of the big reasons we wanted to make a change. This independance from our servers means that during outages and technical issues we can still communicate with our teams. **Official Response from Jane:** > Thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 12. Well organized and efficient **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** This platform has a user-friendly interface that is inutitive and easy to navigate. It has good performance, things load quickly on the news feed so I'm able to see company updates. I like the feature that you can prioritize based on urgency and that you can also include polls. I like that you can celebrate, thumbs up or do other functions for the comments. My company frequently uses this platform and it continues to serve us well. **What do you dislike about Blink?** I find when I'm trying to download items off blink it can be difficult - a lot of prompts before I'm able to have accesibility to the forms other team members have added. Would be nice to add a survey option. I could do without the "suggestions for you" option, just feels like unnessisry clutter to the home interface. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** A way to communicate that is less clunky then group emails. Keeps everyone in the company updated on a platform seperate from emails which are categorized differently. **Official Response from Jane:** > Thank you so much for your review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 13. The best user experience for communication and collaboration within a workplace **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Helen W. | Head of Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** I'm a huge fan of Blink, both as an administrator and as a user. As a user, the experience is fantastic, super easy use but also to snooze in times where you’re away from work. It enables me to engage with all the teams across the wider business and collaborate when I’m needed without being overwhelming like emails can be. I use Blink everyday when I’m working and it’s my go too tool to manage communications about events, projects and updates that are required either for the whole business or specific smaller teams. As an admin user, the functionality and ease to make updates is second to none, it’s our go to for making our employee experience easily accessible and updatable. **What do you dislike about Blink?** In our organisation Blink allows for 'private' group chats' to be set up which can lead to many unmanaged conversations, tricky when you'd like to colaborate as these are more difficult to manage. would be nice to turn on/off some functionalty. That said, its not an issue just a nice to have. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows our business to communicate and collaborate across all teams in an efficient and effective way Enables us to have a platform for all company employee experience material, thats easily accessible on all platform whenever and wherever they may be **Official Response from Jane:** > Helen, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 14. A practical solution to successfully reach front line colleagues **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron T. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** As we have colleagues all across the country, driving trucks, on building sites etc, Blink has given us an easy way to reach everyone across the business. One of our biggest successes is using Blink to share our monthly video update which provided consistent messaging to all our colleagues, as well as providing visibilty to our senior leaders. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Blink has lots of great functionality, like storing important documents, accessing people forms, recognition, news etc but as you always land on the social feed, it can often feel quite busy when you first log in. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blink allows us to reach front line staff who do not have access to a company email etc. We can now reach all staff in the same way so we can provide consistent messaging across the business. **Official Response from Jane:** > Aaron, thank you so much for your review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 15. Great for sharing updates for business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah O. | Marketing Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Blink?** I like the Blink gives us a centralized location for sharing social and business updates for co-workers. It's easy to login to and a simplee platform to post in. It's also a nice place to be able to post FAQ's or intranet documents. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Some employees are slow adopters because it's another piece of tech, but this isn't a problem with the platform itself. **Recommendations to others considering Blink:** Play around with it and see what works best for your company. As far as the HUB goes, organization is key but that will be different for each company. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a good source for intranet, and sharing company social and news updates. **Official Response from Georgie Scott:** > Sarah, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 16. Changed the way we communicate as an organization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisa S. | Actor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink has improved our internal communication dramatically while cutting down on hundreds of emails! So much more comprehensive than Slack. In addition to the news feed and the direct chat feaature, we are also able to utilize the HUB to share mobile friendly content to specific teams. The customer support team is great and made implementation super easy. **What do you dislike about Blink?** I would love if there was a push to email function so we also have the ability to push an email out for important communication. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blink solved our problem of needing to manage 20+ group emails and bombarding our team with email communication that was difficult to sift through, **Official Response from Georgie Scott:** > Hello Lisa, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with cutting down all your emails! Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 17. Great partnership to find solutions for your business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tracy K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink finds a way to make the most out of your employee experience. Their goal is to work with you to find the solutions that can help you run your business better. Every step of the way they ask for feedback and ideas for ways that they can make their system work better for us. We utilize surveys that Blink provides great data for us to develop actions. Our teams use the group chats to stay connected with their teams. We set up personalized posts on a schedule for employee recognition. There are just so many ways that Blink helps us run our business better. **What do you dislike about Blink?** I don't have any area right now that I can think of. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving our employees a voice. Like never before we are hearing our employees and communicating with our employees in ways that connect them to the information they need. **Official Response from Jane:** > Tracy, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with communication. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 18. Blink is an industry game changer for home care integration and communication for team members. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jamie W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink links a workforce together and provides a one stop shop that team members can access to complete their work day. The platform provides not only an outlet for communication and for team member camaraderie but also as a workplace hub. Blink is ultra responsive to feedback and uses suggestions to add enhancement and features to the platform. We would be lost without Blink! **What do you dislike about Blink?** The only downside of the Blink platform is that the broad feeds can become a place of negative engagement by a few disgruntled team members. Often, important messages are ignored or not noticed because the feed is crowded with personal posts from team members. Blink could use more innovation that allows pushing mass private messages and the ability to connect a team member to a workgroup rather than a 1:1 message. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blink acts as an employment Hub for direct care staff that had limited access to work platforms in the past. Blink not only solves communication challenges but the hub allows for single sign on technology that easily links a team member to all the apps and platforms needed in their role. Blink also has developed an innovative forms builder to help collect surveys and forms needed from a field based team of employees. **Official Response from Jane:** > Jamie, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 19. Great way to keep up to date **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emma S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Accessing the most up to date document and policies is very easy. Seeing what other services are doing and promoting what our service does. Easy to use and downloading the app was quick and simply. Everytime i have an issue Customer support was easy to access and quick to respond. Featured or priority post are prominnet so you can not miss important things. **What do you dislike about Blink?** No downsides to using it. Sometimes notfications can be a little much but you can adjust your settings. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** One place to access all the document i need for my role. The ability to securely message my whole team at the same time. **Official Response from Jane:** > Emma, thank you so much for your review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 20. Great platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah B. | Quality Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink has been a fantastic solution to our work 'intranet' needs. As it's like a social media platform, it has familiarity with our staff that makes it simple to use. It's easy to navigate and the hub section is really useful. Its great that it can also be broken down into teams so that the feed doesn't become too overwhelming. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Would love if we could get email notifications about new posts relating to specific teams. We have a team on there that would benefit hugely from this **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having all of the policies and procedures in one place. Being able to communicate company wide, reducing the need for emails. Having an instant messenger so queries get a more immediate response. A way to share best practice across different teams that might not always talk to each other naturally. **Official Response from Jane:** > Sarah, thank you so much for your review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 21. Connecting across the Business **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Facilities Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink allows employees to sit on a level playing field; communication is not limited to a top-down approach, something which allows a togetherness across the board, helping new employees to integrate into the business, understanding its culture, with ease. Blink fulfills a niche channel, allowing employees to raise awareness and communicate personal passions outside of business activity including fundraising; something which is more difficult to do on traditional channels such as Teams and Email. On a weekly basis we will see employees share information about their current efforts both in and outside of work, allowing us to connect on a personal level, understanding each other further. This regular use of the platform is great to see. Customer support is, usually, helpful and friendly, although I have, on occassion, received a sharp response. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Blink, like any social media, is reliant on its user base for its success. While we can call to action for use of the platform, ultimately our engagement relies entirely on whether our employees want to use Blink. This is not something Blink can actively 'fix', however ensuring ease of accessibility is crucial. Blink's 'Hub' feature isn't the easiest to use or the most beneficial to our business. On a personal level I find it can clutter the dashboard for little value. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee Engagement is the big issue here! Ensuring that there is an active and, crucially, informal platform to develop a 'vibe' to the business is massive. Having a space to share business updates, the reward and recognition scheme, newsletters, and competitions, without cluttering the email inboxes for busy employees, is a boon! **Official Response from Jane:** > Thank you so much for your review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact on engagement. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 22. Blink at Tonkotsu - we love it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emma R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Responsive team Constantly improving the software Does everything we need in terms of doc storage and comms across the business Phone and desk apps are similar in functionality **What do you dislike about Blink?** Somtimes uploading images via phone app can take a bit of time **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting rid of Whatapp as form of team comms so people who are off don't get bothered - we run a restaurant business with shifts and people communicating 18 hours a day. You really don't want that if you're off Central place for training manuals and docs, easy to set secuity levels Place to celebrate team and individual success **Official Response from Georgie Scott:** > Emma, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging communication gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 23. Great beginner employee app! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** How easy it is to use and the features! The feed is engaging for our employees and most people who have used it are happy with the simplicity of it. As a digital marketer, Blink allows us to fully engage and communicate with our large teams quickly and effectively! **What do you dislike about Blink?** Nothing I dislike, just a learning curve for some who are digitially savy and I wish I could add giphs on the app instead of searching for them externally! **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communicating with our larger organization and across all work locations. We are able to message them and see what is happening with them. This is a great way for us to engage with them without going to them and finding out what is happening. Several employees from different locations felt left out and now we are able to engage with them digitally and work on improving work relationships and work culture. **Official Response from Jane:** > Thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 24. Blink is the way forward **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** That it brings everyone together in one platform and it's so easy to use. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Honestly nothing. Everything is going well **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Direct contact with my drivers that I don't usually get to see often with shift patterns. It's also helping with driver requests that come direct to me **Official Response from Ines Ferreira:** > Thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're glad to hear that Blink is helping you stay connected with your drivers and making communication easier. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 25. Blink has Been a Game Changer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ron H. | President/CEO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Our manufacturing business operates 24x7. Our operations team working shifts sees our business support and leader teams only 27% of the time due to night and weekend work. We finally have an effective tool to enable active two way communications...for policies, directions and important company information!! This really improves our team experience and engagement. **What do you dislike about Blink?** I would like it to have tighter integration with Office 365. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increase timely communication. Increased transparency. Increase connection for new team members in a rapidly growing business. Easy access to policies and procedures and connection with leaders and HR team. **Official Response from Jane:** > Ron, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with communication and engagement. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 26. Blink has been instrumental in improving our Internal and External Communications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yannick v. | Vice Principal and Junior Partner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Our Implementation Manager and Customer Success Manager have been instrumental in making Blink a success for streamlining our internal communications. The design and functionality within the app is everything you need to get staff excited about using the app and posting regularly. **What do you dislike about Blink?** The design and functionality around the statistics could be improved. It would be helpful to have more ownership of this particular area to improve reports. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before Blink, we sent out bi-weekly newsletters to keep our staff up-to-date about what was happening within the business and in specific teams. This took up a lot of time. Blink has helped us streamline the communication channels and allowed internal staff to take ownership of regularly posting updates from their teams. Furthermore, we have also been able to utilise Blink as a communication tool for our external partners and trainers. **Official Response from Jane:** > Yannick, thank you so much for your review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact on communication. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 27. The best Employee Engagement App there is! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink is a really colorful and engaging app that brings all colleagues in every business together. Supported with world-class hyper care by the team (thanks Elly and Maggie), I have been really impressed with the better functionality it provides over alternative platforms such as Yammer. The team are constantly developing the app as well which makes it future proof. There isn't a better engagement app for businesses. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Nothing at all really. We always put forward improvements recommended from our colleagues but these improvements are tailored to our business and something Blink keep us updated on. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to communicate to all our colleagues using one app. This allows us to tailor specific comms to our colleagues to improve engagement. **Official Response from Jane:** > Alex, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 28. Fantastic Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emma Claire P. | Marketing Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink is extremely user friendly! They have done a great job of improving their features and listening to feedback to make changes for the better. Overall, it is just a wonderful app! **What do you dislike about Blink?** There really is no downside to using blink! **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blink offers a place for the work place to become more social, espeically for a busienss that has employees all over the state. We are able to connect on a more personal level with each other, as well as share photos, posts to other offices, and many more things! **Official Response from Georgie Scott:** > Emma! Thank you so much for your 5-star review. 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 29. Loved the transition to Blink! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Very user friendly - a great all rounder app for all kinds of work comms **What do you dislike about Blink?** Getting used to it will take some time due to habit! **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communication between departments is much easier than via Whatsapp (which was used previously) **Official Response from Ines Ferreira:** > Thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We understand that adjusting to a new platform can take some time, but we're glad to hear that Blink is making communication between departments easier for you. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 30. Keeping employees connected through Blink **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samantha S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink keeps our employees connected and informed. It's extremely helpful for our deskless employees to have needed company information, shortcuts to commonly used web pages and communications readily accessible at their fingertips. We use the app daily for communicating and access to company information in the hub. On the rare occasion that we run into a tech issue, the customer support is prompt to assist and super helpful. **What do you dislike about Blink?** There are no downsides to using Blink for our company's needs. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blink is helping us keep the workforce connected. **Official Response from Jane:** > Samantha, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact on connecting your workforce. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 31. Blink has improved our internal communication more than we could have imagined **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Scarlet M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink is so easy to use for all our team & has improved our ability to communicate internally drastically. **What do you dislike about Blink?** The desktop app can be slightly clunky at times but only very occasionally. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Due to the nature of our business, not all our team members can be reached via email. Blink gives us the opportunity to push out communication instantly to as many people as we want. It is also helping our team to communicate on a 1:1 level outside of platforms we cannot oversee if neccessary. **Official Response from Jane:** > Scarlet, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 32. Fantastic team collaboration and communication tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Completely real-time social feed, with both team / company wide comms capabilities, plus direct messaging and company docs / directories / forms / integrations - it has revolutionisied how we work. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Genuinely can't see any downsides / dislikes; just ideas about extra features and developments. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Massively speeding up team communications, as we were still on paper (with a handful of digital) noticeboards only, greatly enhancing team engagement through the feel-good of being able to communicate all in real-time, comment, celebrate, collaborate and share thoughts. **Official Response from Jane:** > Mark, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 33. Pleasantly surprised! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** The implementation team and support at Blink are entirely unique in my experience. The platform itself is very good and has enabled us to reach our wider team. It is intuitive to use and even a slight techophobe like me can operate it well! I have been involved in many tech implementations and what you are sold at the outset rarely delivers, I can truly say that's not been our experience. The team at Blink go out of their way to find you a solution if it is not available at first glance. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Sometimes there are small glitches that prevent seemless use but this disappears rather quickly (opening an attachment and it is the wrong file). I am sure there could be more tech related feedback but from a people perspective, I am happy. We couldn't brand it entirely to our business, that has been a little of the feedback to date - so we have essentially just kept Blink as the main name (clever on your part ;)) **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reaching all colleagues, promoting benefits, giving business updates - increasing engagement and bringing people closer! **Official Response from Jane:** > Thank you so much for your review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 34. Blink is reliable and easy to use! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Meghan A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink is what we use for company comms outside of email and we LOVE sharing information about our clients, partners, etc. Being able to search past messages, highlight info to save for later, and upload pics/files is super helpful. Our Customer Success Manager, Kirsten, is also AMAZING. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Only thing I can think of is not being able to upload videos to chats and not being able to "like" someone's message in a chat (you can only reply to it). **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps our new hires especially be able to have a platform to ask questions - basically gives them an amazing resource where they can search for something and can see how that problem/issue with one of their clients has been addressed in the past. **Official Response from Jane:** > Meghan, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 35. Excellent Platform for many benefits **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron I. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink platform offers employers a dynamic and efficient way to enhance team communication and operational efficiency. With its user-friendly interface and comprehensive suite of tools, Blink empowers organizations to streamline workflows, foster a culture of transparency and collaboration, and ultimately drive productivity. It's an investment in building a more connected, engaged, and high-performing workplace. Jess our current success manager works with us to strive for the best possible results and engagements on the platform. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Not being able to send videos on chats but Blink are constantly updaing the platform to enable new features and take feedback on-board. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to contact all staff members instead of using text message or whatsapp. **Official Response from Jane:** > Aaron, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact on team communications and operational efficiency. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 36. Great option for a Small Business **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bert F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** The homepage that allows for posting of articles and other shared information for the team is very useful and also the chat feature that allows for communication with others in the organization. **What do you dislike about Blink?** The admin consule can be a bit confusing and also the fact that if someone makes a chat with someone else only the person who created it can edit it or add photos or such. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides a affordable option for company messaging and intranet for a small business. **Official Response from Georgie Scott:** > Hello Bert, thank you so much for your review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with sharing and centralizing information. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 37. A great app for engaging colleagues on the move **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex P. | Internal Comms Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** It's extremely quick and easy to manage and log-in. It's fun, engaging and it brings colleagues across a business together, sharing best practice, community and charity achievements, long-service, standards, the list goes on. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Nothing - I just think it has room to really evolve over the next few years. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gives colleagues who don't have access to our primary platforms, the ability to engage with the business and understand what's happening. We also use it to launch incentives and competitions. **Official Response from Jane:** > Alex, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact on engagement. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 38. blink review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Finn M. | Marketing Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** the ease of communication individually and in a team **What do you dislike about Blink?** the limited emoji replies for comment responses **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** group communications in one place **Official Response from Ines Ferreira:** > Thank you for your feedback, Finn 🌟 We’re delighted to hear that Blink has made individual and team communication easier and that you’re benefiting from having group communications in one place. We also appreciate your note about limited emoji repliesβ€”feedback like this helps us improve, and we’ll share it with our product team. Thanks for being a valued part of the Blink community! ### 39. Great tool to keep colleagues engaged **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sara D. | Customer Service and Key Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** That employees can use this as a social platfrom as well as a tool for useful information. **What do you dislike about Blink?** I can't think of anything, it is a useful tool **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using the hub feature important notices can be found in one place. No longer required to print off notices to display on notice boards. Also helps improve emplyee morale, I like to post good news stories. **Official Response from Jane:** > Sara, thank you so much for your review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 40. Retain company culture through business growth **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** I was first intoduced to Blink through anouther business in our group, and with almost no turorial was able to start using and understand the platform well. I was particualry suprised by how easy it was to login for the first time. It's very intutive and is being well used by there teams two years on. For us, it's helping to maintain our personal culture as the business grows nad bring our newer members closer to leadership and improve their orientation. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Have not found any downsides yet. I do think in a lot of ways it's simplicity is to it's credit. I have seen platforms become too feature rich, reuslting in users becomming disengaged. I think Blink have actually got the balance right. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Staying connected as a growing business. Improving communication with front line team members who are not engaged via email. Sharing best practice. Helping team members make connections with key departments and personnel. **Official Response from Jane:** > Thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 41. The best way to communicate with work peers! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kim A. | Director of Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** I love that Blink updates in real time, and that you can have a safe and secure place to house documents all in one location. Being able to have a central location for all information has saved my organization SO MUCH time!! **What do you dislike about Blink?** There really is not anything I dislike about Blink It is a fantastic system. Maybe the new color scheme.... **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Needing a central location to house all documents and trainings, such a time saver! **Official Response from Jane:** > Kim, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 42. Excellent way to collaborate with fellow staff members. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thaddaeus S. | Systems Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink is a great way for us to communicate with staff and our agents. It is very easy to use and not complicated. **What do you dislike about Blink?** Would love to see more functionality with notification settings. More options with what we can choose to get notified for. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main problem it is solving is helping us not need to send so many emails. Blink has significantly cut down on the amount of emails we are receiving and sending. **Official Response from Jane:** > Thaddaeus, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 43. Love the Blink App! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Allie C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** I love the ability to stay connected with coworkers in a safe and efficient way. We use it every day to update our caregivers especially when our other apps have issues. Blink is very reliable! **What do you dislike about Blink?** I actually can't find any downsides as Blink has been my go to app to solve problems that other apps are lacking. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to have polls and hear crucial feedback from our caregivers. It is a safe place of communication to strengthen the bonds between our employees. Lastly, Blink is a very easy way to update our caregivers when we have issues with other apps so that everyone is on the same page. **Official Response from Jane:** > Allie, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact on communication with your caregivers. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 44. Great resource for streamlining Internal Communication **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Terry V. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** At East Yorkshire Buses, where seamless internal communication is paramount, Blink has proven to be a game-changer. This platform offers us a distinct channel for our internal communications, providing a more professional atmosphere compared to mainstream social media apps. One standout feature is the 'hub,' which acts as a centralized space for all our staff to access relevant files and documents. What sets Blink apart is its ability to achieve this without the need for costly Microsoft Office accounts, making it a cost-effective solution for our organization. The Blink team has been incredibly accommodating throughout our journey with the platform. Their support in incorporating separate department feeds onto digital screens has streamlined communication within specific departments and office locations. In addition, the onboarding process was a breeze, thanks to its user-friendly interface and intuitive design. The support we received during this transition was unparalleled, emphasizing the commitment of the Blink team to ensure a smooth and efficient integration for our organization. **What do you dislike about Blink?** While our experience with Blink has been overwhelmingly positive, it's worth noting that there is room for improvement in the training materials provided. The current 'Blink Champions' approach, utilising a train-the-trainer method, has its merits, but given the nature of our organization with staff located across multiple sites, and considering staff turnover, a more accessible solution would be beneficial. Incorporating digital and interactive training materials could enhance the learning experience for our team, ensuring that everyone can maximize the platform's potential. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** The 'hub' acts as a centralized space for all our staff to access relevant files and documents. What sets Blink apart is its ability to achieve this without the need for costly Microsoft Office accounts, making it a cost-effective solution for our organization. Additionally, this platform offers us a distinct channel for our internal communications, providing a more professional atmosphere compared to mainstream social media apps. **Official Response from Jane:** > Terry, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact at East Yorkshire Buses. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 45. A great mployee enguagement and connection platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen W. | Technical Training Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** For us the most helpful section has been the Hub. Holding all of out important information in one place and directing employees to one connection point **What do you dislike about Blink?** the featue which fails us the most is the search function. It rarly find the information you are looking for **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Previously we relied heavily on email which would often get overlooked. This allows us to create enguaging content and monitor its impact **Official Response from Jane:** > Stephen, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 46. Blink allows me to always stay connected! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suzanne D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Very user friendly. Right from the beginning it was easy to navigate and understand. I like that it allows me to stay connected with my colleagues within the business. **What do you dislike about Blink?** I don't think that there is anything that i hugely dislike about blink. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blink helps to improve our communiactions across the whole business and to ensure there is a consistent message which reaches out to all departments. **Official Response from Jane:** > Suzanne, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 47. Easy to use and a great workplace tool to enhance comms. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Colin M. | Training and Competence manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Ease of use and the UI. Right from the beginning it was easy to navigate and understand. **What do you dislike about Blink?** I don't think there are any huge dislikes, any issues we have is more to do with our organistion set up interacting with the app. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're on a journey to improve our communiactions across the organisation and to ensure there is consistent messaging which reaches outto all the departments and sections. **Official Response from Jane:** > Colin, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact on organization and communication. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 48. Enhanced our staff engagment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** karl C. | Commercial Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Ease of use, the Hub section for admin is simple to follow and load the documents needed. **What do you dislike about Blink?** The search function when looking for posts I have submitted is no the easiest to navigate, for instance, when typing my name in it would be helpful if only my posts came to the top. **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps with contacting drivers and communicating changes to the duties **Official Response from Jane:** > Karl, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 49. Blink is truly fantastic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josephine B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink is always developing - their continuous platform improvements has constantly enabled our organisation to offer new and exciting features to improve employee experience across the Hospital. It's also incredibly user friendly - the platform from an administration perspective is so easy to use an intuitive, you don't need to be a tech genius to naviagte it. It's been pivotal in improving connection across our organisation, making sure the right people are getting the right information, in an accessible and fun way. Their customer support team and Customer Success Managers are fantasticly attentive, supportive and innovate in providing options to help ius improve the platform. **What do you dislike about Blink?** The only thing I could think of, is I'd love to be able to brand the folder icons... but that's it! **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connection and culture of communication, ease of access for frontline workers, organistaion wide recognition, technical solutions, hosting processes and forms. **Official Response from Jane:** > Josephine, thank you so much for your 5-star review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact on communication. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. We look forward to continuing this journey with you! ### 50. Blink Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juscita E. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Blink?** Blink app is easy to use and navigate; CSM is very supportive; Prompt customer service; Blink team is open and responsive to feature requests **What do you dislike about Blink?** Some feature requests take time to materialize **What problems is Blink solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Blink, we were able to establish a dedicated two-way communication channel between seafarers and employees through a single mobile/desktop application, to connect shore and sea for various communications such as important company updates and news and collection of feedback related to crew safety and retention, and to celebrate successes and develop a culture of team recognition and support. **Official Response from Jane:** > Juscita, thank you so much for your review! 🌟 We're thrilled to hear that Blink is making a positive impact with centralizing everything. Our mission is to ensure every employee feels connected and valued, no matter where they are. Your feedback reinforces the importance of bridging digital gaps and providing a platform where everyone can stay informed and engaged. If there's anything more we can do to support your experience, please let us know. 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