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"A no-brainer for employee idea crowdsourcing platform." Jan 2023 Engage your people, improve your organisation and build a culture of Innovation quickly and simply, on Microsoft Teams, your Interact Intranet and more At Sideways 6, we understand the importance of engaging your employees to achieve business goals through ideas. But running ideas programs at scale can easily become unwieldy and difficult to execute with impact. That's why we've developed a solution that revolutionizes the way companies share, manage, and review employee ideas to drive business goals through a culture that puts employees at its core. Our software makes it easy for companies to share and organize employee ideas in the tools your employees use every day, ensuring that no great idea goes unnoticed. With automated and customizable tools, communications, tracking, voting, and reviewing, our platform allows companies to quickly and easily assess the potential of each idea and make informed decisions for maximum impact whilst engaging employees. Companies that use Sideways 6 manage ideas 3 times quicker, spend 4 times less time updating employees, see 78% more engagement and ideas and implement ideas that make a tangible different to the bottom line. By using Sideways 6, businesses experience a significant increase in resource efficiency (>$60M saved by Balfour Beatty), productivity (Nestlé ideated 155 new products to take to market), and engagement (16% increase employee engagement at DXC Technology). By leveraging the power employees' ideas, Sideways 6 can help your company reach new heights of success. Find out why the likes of Rio Tinto, Nestlé, Vodafone and Marks and Spencer trust the Sideways 6 approach at www.sideways6.com.

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Danish, German, Greek, English, Finnish, French, Croatian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

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Will Read (CEO - Sideways 6)

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Lite <10 users

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Sideways 6 Demo - Step 1 | Capture ideas

Employees share ideas on the tools they use every day like Microsoft Teams, Yammer or Workplace from Meta.

Sideways 6 Demo - Step 2 I Engage Employees

Employee feel they have an impact and say in the company's overall direction.

Ideas feed into the Sideways 6 idea management platform to be developed, shortlisted and reviewed.

Sideways 6 Demo - Step 4 | Shortlist ideas

Customisable and automated shortlisting of the best ideas to be implemented and celebrated.

Sideways 6 Demo - Our clients and our mission

Since 2014, Sideways 6's mission has been to help companies change the world for the better by bringing employee ideas to life.

Sideways 6 Demo - Our product in the tools your employees use every day

Integrating seamlessly with Microsoft Teams, Interact Intranets and many more guarantees the highest level of adoption.

Sideways 6 helps you listen to ideas from the people who know your business best of all, your employees. Maybe these ideas will change your business, maybe they'll change the world.

Introducing Similar Idea AI - making your idea submission even more efficient by automatically identifying similar ideas already submitted.

We often get asked what makes Sideways 6 a great company to work with. We decided to let our customers do the talking for us… Find out how Sideways 6 helps bring employee ideas to life at www.Sideways6.com

Already using Microsoft Teams? The Sideways 6 employee ideas app makes it easy to collect, manage, and act on employee ideas—right where your team already works. No new tools required!

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Sideways 6 Reviews (41)

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Anshuman S.

Product Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/26/2025

"Appreciate Sideways 6"

4/5

What do you like best about Sideways 6?

Sideways 6 stands out by empowering every employee to become an innovator, drawing on valuable insights from those on the front lines. Unlike traditional suggestion boxes, it ensures that ideas are not only collected but also thoroughly reviewed, developed, and put into action. This approach fosters a strong culture of continuous improvement and greatly enhances employee engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

One possible drawback is that the platform's effectiveness relies greatly on the company's willingness to follow through on the ideas submitted. If there aren't sufficient resources allocated to assess and put these suggestions into practice, the platform could end up functioning like a digital suggestion box where employee input is overlooked. This, in turn, might harm morale if employees begin to feel that their contributions are not being taken seriously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sideways 6 addresses the important issue of untapped employee insight by offering a straightforward way for ideas to reach the appropriate decision-makers. For me, this makes it simple to share suggestions for improvement and gives me the sense that my input is truly valued. In the end, this contributes to a more efficient work environment and fosters a greater sense of shared purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jordan G.

Hatch Coordinator - Member Experience

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/9/2025

"Great company to work with."

5/5

What do you like best about Sideways 6?

Their tech support, onboarding and commitment to the success of the program that's supported by their services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

The only negative is limitations with self-service access to engagement and log-in data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yvette F.

Manager, Member Experience

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/19/2024

"We've tried the others, but the platform and supporting team are by far the best!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Sideways 6?

From the outset, the team at S6 have been invested in our journey and need - collaborating to ensure we get maximum value about outcome from the S6 platform.

We love the integration with Teams and ease of use, both as a front end user for submitting an Idea, but the a backend as an Administrator of the pipeline.

We've largely been able to customise the forms, flow and user experience to meet our diverse business needs, and periodically work with S6 to ensure we have an effective tool to support our cultural and performance objectives. They're always eager to collaborate and understand how they can evolve and adapt the tool to drive value and engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

Not much...

There have been some limitations in the ease of search in the pipeline of submissions, which as we migrated a significant volume of submissions from prior platforms, has made for a slightly poorer UX.

The back end is a little "onerous" for an infrequent user / administrator of the pipeline (part of our model to have decentralised Champions manage their bucket of work), but a small challenge to navigate.

We'd love to have our hands on our engagement data (our core success measure) a bit more real-time/self-led, but the team are always timely and generous with sharing this data to support our monthly reporting, so again, a manageable "issue". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

S6 is helping support our cultural value - that we are a customer obsessed organisation, and that when you (a staff member) see a substandard experience - you can elevate it quickly and easily.

Our platfrom is supported by a network of decentralised cross-functional Champions who investigate, prioritise and deliver on improvements to eliminate these poor employee or member experiences.

As the centralised owner of the Platform and cultral proof point of our commitment and tangible delivery of improvements that deliver increase CSat or EX, Sideways 6 provides us;

- an engaging, easy to use, all employee - always on platform for our staff who work across multiple locations and 24/7, to share their ideas or things that are stopping us succeeding.

- an effective back end pipeline management to administer the buckets of work, progress, cadence and outcomes - with automation, features and report (far above other products we've used) that allows us to provide Executive confidence that we're delivering our our customer obsessed commitments and employee promise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lauryn D.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/20/2024

"Easy to use and great for business reports"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Sideways 6?

I like that I can export data into excel and easily change the values I do or don't want to see, as well as saving multiple different views for different purposes. This is really useful for creating different reports and checking different facts quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

Within each idea, it is a bit harder to search or filter for specific information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

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Thank you for this feedback, it's very useful and we'll pass that on to our product team.

Michelle R.

VP of Business Advancement

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/23/2023

"Superior customer experience and product"

5/5

What do you like best about Sideways 6?

Sideways6's seamless integration with Microsoft Teams was a key factor in the selection process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

I have been very pleased with Sideways6's response to customer feedback and its transparency of future enhancements and functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Sideways6 platform enables every colleague to impact T&F by suggesting ideas that we test, trial, and ultimately use to advance and grow our business. One of the most critical drivers of innovation within our organization is our people, and there is no shortage of new, creative, and unique ideas throughout Advanced Learning. Sideways6 enables T&F to meet this critical business initiative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

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Thank you so much for these great insights and we're delighted that T&F is getting value from our product. As always, don't hesitate to let us know if there's anything else we can do to improve it.

saikiran k.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/26/2024

"Best in view of Analytics Report"

4/5

What do you like best about Sideways 6?

There is best view for the Analytics report, where the campaigns gives us te clear cut information and the Dashboard view is Awsome and it is user friendly interface.

And Support team they are very quick to help and resolve my problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

when ever in Run the power automate flow it is run fine, when ever the interface changes it is making hard to run the flow.

I need to go back to flow and change the co-ordinates as per the interface changes.

and genreal pop-ups makes my flow to fails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

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Thank you so much for your feedback - really helpful - we'll look into disrupting flows to a minimum and are taking this very much on board.

Eva P.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/22/2024

"User experience is very good and that the live assistance is helpful in quickly resolving any doubts"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Sideways 6?

I must say that the live assistance has been incredibly helpful in quickly resolving any doubts I may have, and the tool's ability to track projects and consolidate reviews in one place saves me valuable time and allows me to focus more effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

I believe the way the tool looks regarding the brand could be enhanced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

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Thank you for your positive feedback about our live assistance and project tracking capabilities. We understand your concern about the tool's appearance and will take that into account for future enhancements. We're glad to hear that the tool is helping you engage employees and prioritize ideas.

Michael C.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/27/2024

"Sideways 6 used for Transmission Ideas in SSEN"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Sideways 6?

The customer support! Holding interactive sessions and being involoved in our process and metric rework. Easy to use and perfectly integarted Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

Nothing, mayber the fact there is no time dependant automation in their system yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

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Thank you for this great feedback! We'll pass on your comments to our customer support superstars!

Verified User in Publishing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/26/2024

"Enhancing user experience for an idea manager"

4/5

What do you like best about Sideways 6?

Easy to use, easy to manage ideas in an organized way, features like flags and statuses available to mark different phases of the ideas. Space available to post updates on the ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

There is no way to share updates on the ideas with the ideas submitter via sideways6. Also, no way to book a meeting with the idea submitter to discuss the progress of ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

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Hi there. Thank you so much for your feedback. We're delighted you're finding the product easy to use.

On your point about sharing update, please let us know what you mean and need to do (feel free to speak directly to your CSM) otherwise did you know that we have a few ways to share updates:

Automatically. it is possible to create automations to send a Teams private message or email for each stage/status change.

Manually: for each idea, it is possible to send an email, teams private message, teams comment or idea progress update.

Does this solve your issue?

Verified User in Publishing

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/28/2024

"Experience of using Sideways as an Ideas Manager"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Sideways 6?

The comprehensiveness of the platform allows me as an idea manager to track the entire journey of a project. The interface is largely user-friendly, allowing for easy monitoring of data, and pulls in information from the Ignite platform seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

Filtering options could be improved on the platform which would be helpful where we have multiple ideas managers, or several ideas at various stages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

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Thank you so much for your feedback. That's extremely useful.