Staff noticeboards: reach the people who never open the email
Shift changes, policy updates, who is on today, and the thank-you nobody read in the group chat. On a screen in the staffroom, the corridor or above the clocking-in point, where the people who are not at a desk actually are.
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Most of your staff do not have a desk, and internal comms assumes they do
Email and intranets are built for people at a computer. Care assistants, kitchen staff, cleaners, porters, teaching assistants and warehouse teams are not.
A care home sends a policy update by email. Forty per cent of the team have a work email they check on a shared office computer once a week, so the update reaches the office staff and nobody else. A school posts a change to break duty in a staff WhatsApp group; by Monday it is nineteen messages up and the teaching assistants who joined the group in September never saw it. A warehouse pins the shift rota to a board by the lockers. It is changed in pen, then changed again, and by Thursday two people have read two different versions of the same Saturday.
What internal comms that misses half the team costs you
Email reaches the people who already knew
The staff sitting at a computer are usually the ones in the meeting where it was decided. The ones who need telling are on a ward, in a kitchen or on a floor.
Group chats bury the important one
A rota change and a picture of somebody's dog have exactly the same weight in a chat thread, and the dog gets more engagement.
The pinned rota is never the current rota
Handwritten changes on a printed sheet create two versions of the truth, and the argument about which one is right happens on the day.
Good news never gets told
Thanks, a compliment from a family, a new starter, a qualification passed. These go out by email and vanish, which is a shame because they are the cheapest retention you have.
A staffroom screen that is always current
Put the notices, the rota and the team on a screen where staff already stand: the staffroom, the corridor, the kitchen, the back of house. Write it once and it is the same on every screen, with nothing to print and nothing to correct in pen.
Put a screen back of house
Staffroom, kitchen, corridor, or above where people clock in. Any TV with an HDMI port.
Write the notices once
Announcements with a priority, who is on today, and the things people keep asking about. Set an expiry so old notices remove themselves.
Let it rotate
Notices, then the team, then the rota. One screen covers what three pinboards used to, and it is right on all of them.
Ready-made staff Boards: notices, the team and announcements
These are the actual Boards a staffroom screen can show.
How different employers use a staff screen
Care homes: handover the whole team can see
Who is on, what changed, and the compliment the family left. Reaches care staff who do not sit at a computer from one shift to the next.
Schools: cover and duty in the staffroom
Today's cover, duty changes and reminders, visible at break, instead of nineteen messages deep in a group chat.
Hospitality: back of house between services
Allergen changes, this week's rota, and the run of the evening, where the kitchen will actually read it.
Warehouses and factories: one version of the rota
The current shift pattern, changed centrally, so nobody is arguing on Saturday about a sheet that was amended in pen on Thursday.
Why NowBoard suits internal comms for people without desks
No app for staff to install
Nobody has to sign up, accept an invite or remember a password. It is a screen on a wall they already walk past.
Notices can expire on their own
Give a notice an end date and it removes itself, so the board is not a museum of last spring.
Priority actually shows
An urgent notice looks urgent instead of having the same weight as a message about the kettle.
Back of house stays back of house
The staffroom screen and the reception screen show different Playlists, so internal notices never reach visitors.
Anyone you choose can post
Roles decide who can change what, so a duty manager can add a notice without being able to change the whole account.
From £10 per Screen/month
Cheaper than the printing it replaces, and it reaches the staff email never did.
Common questions about staff noticeboards
Can we keep staff notices off public screens?
Yes. Each Screen plays its own Playlist, so the staffroom and the reception show different things entirely.
Can several managers post notices?
Yes. Invite them and give them a role that lets them add and edit content without changing your account settings.
Does it replace our HR system or rota software?
No. It shows what you type. If your rota lives in another system, this is where you display the version staff need to read, not where you build it.
Will old notices pile up?
Not if you set an end date. Notices can remove themselves, which is the main thing a pinboard cannot do.
Can we celebrate people on it?
Yes, and the places that do get the most out of it. New starters, qualifications, thanks from families and birthdays all sit alongside the practical notices.
Tell the whole team, not just the ones at a computer
One screen back of house, always current, with nothing to print.