{"id":14020,"date":"2022-11-22T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rumbletalk.com\/blog\/?p=14020"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:15:48","slug":"employee-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumbletalk.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/22\/employee-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldie but Goodie: Why chat rooms still reign the online space and employee engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chat rooms are one of the oldest online communities. They predate email servers, multiplayer games, bulletin boards, commercial online services, and social networks. They started humble, but over time they became places for people to share information and connect with others who share their interests such as employee engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chat rooms stand out from other instant messaging programs because they allow for communication between multiple people and now, employee engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to an even more distant future and chat rooms<\/a> will just be one of many digital tools that businesses use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s different now?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite chat rooms being around for a long time, the technology has only recently evolved significantly. Companies who use RumbleTalk<\/a> express that the software allows for video calls, exchanging documents<\/a>, and most significantly, sharing gifs and reactions<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technology is beneficial for all parts of their jobs including the less formal “hey, I have a quick question” meetings, client check-ins, and new business pitches. At the core of chat technology, groups prefer conducting conversations online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But today, with “channels,” or rooms that users can create or delete as needed, workers can schedule and join online meetings with dial-in audio conferencing that has high-definition and VoIP capability (voice over internet protocol, which allows voice calls over the internet).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This technology also allows for file sharing. Users who don’t see information in real-time can review it later in recorded transcripts<\/a>. Some products have advanced features, such as dedicated phone numbers for making and receiving calls to users outside of the software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, our company manages a team of 20 people globally. The ability to do morning check-ins and interact with team members across the globe is very handy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around half of the workers believe that communication apps help them be more efficient<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Do work chat platforms make you more or less productive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n