Employee engagement

Employee Engagement Dropped? 3 Initiatives Worth Taking Now with BuddiesHR’s Slack Apps

How to handle an employee engagement that drops? Here are 3 initiatives to take now.

Fabien Pinel

05 Feb 2025 — 4 min read

One key factor that influences the success of every organization today is employee engagement. When engagement levels go up, employees tend to remain more productive for the company. However, when it drops, the organization is likely to experience different issues—including a disengaged workforce, reduced productivity, and a high employee turnover rate.

It's normal for your team's engagement levels to drop once in a while. What's not normal, however, is if you fail to look for the right initiatives to elevate the engagement levels. This begs the question, what exactly are the right initiatives to revive your employee engagement levels?

BuddiesHR.com offers a suite of Slack apps, which you can leverage to boost employee engagement. These apps are also ideal for enhancing team collaboration and creating an efficient work culture. Below are the top three initiatives worth trying today:

Build better relationships at work with Alfy Matching

Today, one of the biggest reasons for employee disengagement is a lack of better relationships. Poor workplace relationships come from a lack of trust, collaboration, and support among team members and managers. This directly lowers organizational productivity and increases employee turnover rates.

If you currently experience poor workplace relationships between your team members, BuddiesHR is one platform you can rely on. To boost your employee productivity, you can take advantage of BuddiesHR’s Alfy Matching app. This Slack app allows you to connect with your team members seamlessly and regularly for a coffee chat. The good thing about this approach is that it can effectively strengthen your team bonding.

Here's why you'll love this app:

Peer-to-peer matching: this allows you to connect your employees for a quick coffee chat.
Group size selection: this feature allows you to perform group pairs. You can pair up to 3, 4, or 5 people for a quick chat.
Frequency selection allows you to choose how often the team members need to meet. This could be every 2, 3, or 4 days.
One highlight of Alfy Matching is that all operations occur directly on Slack. This means you and the employees need not register any app. Instead, all you need is to connect the app with your Slack channels.
Other amazing features of the Alfy Matching app include:

Scheduling assistant
Conversation starters
Random matching
Custom cross-team matching
Dashboard

Here's how the Alfy Matching Slack app works:

To get started with Alfy Matching, below are a few best practices worth following:

Start by connecting the Alfy Matching app to your Slack account.
Next, consider setting up your channel and adding your employees. To do this, you need to visit Slack settings for Alfy. Next, click on the app’s name, ensuring it's in the home tab. You can also perform other settings, such as choosing the group size and frequency of meetings.
Once everything is set, all you need is to wait for the next meeting. The app will automatically send messages to selected employees (who are on Slack) to join.

Alfy Matching is the perfect app for making your new hires feel supported and welcomed. This app also helps your remote workers develop stronger bonds with their team members, regardless of the locations. It also helps existing staff to remain engaged for improved productivity.

Celebrate important events with your team members using the Billy Birthday app

Not paying attention to your employees’ special days, such as birthdays, can make them feel unappreciated or less special. This indirectly affects the employees’ overall productivity levels.

Well, one effective way to boost employee engagement and productivity levels is by celebrating them. This approach shows your organization indeed appreciates them. Besides, it also helps to foster a sense of belonging. Celebrating your employees’ birthdays also strengthens workplace relationships.

Today, one way to celebrate your employees’ birthdays is by using the Slack app—such as BuddiesHR's Billy Birthday. This app allows you to wish your team members a happy birthday at the appropriate time. This approach provides the team members with some positive vibes necessary to become more productive.

Here's how the Billy Birthday app works:

You need to register on Slack and have it installed on your device.
Next, visit buddieshr.com/billy and add Billy to your channel.
After that, consider configuring the birth date collection of your team members.
Once you have the dates configured, all you need is to wait for Billy Birthday to work its magic. If necessary, you can configure the time of the day you need the bot to send the birthday wishes.

Understand that not everyone likes to be celebrated, especially on their birthdays. Billy Birthday offers an “opt-out” feature. It allows employees to opt out of the program.

Promote peer recognition with Clappy Kudos

Poor employee recognition at work is one of the major factors that cause employee disengagement. It makes employees feel unappreciated and undervalued. Sadly, these feelings tend to reduce employees' motivation, productivity, and workplace commitment. To avoid these issues, you certainly need to regularly make your workers feel recognized.

With Clappy Kudos, you can easily make your employees feel recognized and appreciated. This app will help boost your employees’ morale and engagement levels. This approach will also bring your company's values to life.

Here's how to get started with Clappy Kudos on Slack today:

To get started, you need to connect your Slack workspace. To do this, you need to visit buddieshr.com/clappy. Next, click “Add to Slack”. A prompt will come up, asking you to accept permission from the Clappy Kudos app.
After accepting the permission, you need to proceed by setting up your Slack channel and adding your employees.
Test the setup by sending kudos to yourself first. If successful, you can start using the app to commend your employees’ efforts.

Buddies HR offers many more Slack apps that you can take advantage of to boost your employee engagement levels today. Some of them include: