Creating a virtual office for a staff of 1,600: story of FRoSTA

63.2%

of users stated they always feel well-informed with Bitrix24

73.3%

of users from our international sales offices stated that Bitrix24 has enhanced their identification with company objectives.

Andrea van Bezouwen

Intranet Coordinator, FRoSTA LLC

"Many employees immediately began organizing numerous work & project groups. They are now communicating internationally and collaborating on documents without having to resort to unsightly e-mail newsletters or time-consuming searches for the most relevant and latest document versions."

Background

Since the beginning of April 2015, my co-workers have been benefitting from a platform which is based on Bitrix24 and carries the catchy, memorable name myFRoSTA! It’s a very social app which has activity stream where the main action takes place and it works like Facebook. It’s fun and simple to use, which encourages most employees to comment or like items. Training is also available for those who need a hand getting started with myFRoSTA!

Challenge

It was a major challenge for us to bring together all 1,600 workers at a virtual location in order to enable them to communicate better and work more effectively. Since our company is in the production sector, only about 1/3 of the employees have network access with an e-mail account, meaning that 2/3 of our staff were not being sufficiently informed. Moreover, since FRoSTA also has some sales offices in other European countries, we wanted to present our staff in these locations with the same opportunity to be well-informed, to join in on discussions and be a part of this effort on a daily basis. We realized the best way to facilitate this communication would be via a mobile application. Bitrix24 app was made available for all staff to download and use by logging in on their own personal mobile devices. Our objectives can be briefly summarized as follows:

make information accessible for everyone
improve communication
enable borderless collaboration in easily organizable virtual work spaces

Solution

Our experience with myFRoSTA! Bitrix24 portal. It's especially useful for browsing news about the latest trends in the frozen food industry. The news is sent out to all employees (the most of them are willing to stay informed) while enjoying a morning coffee. myFRoSTA! provides a news outlet exclusively tailored to our company and our industry. Many employees immediately began organizing numerous work & project groups. They are now communicating internationally and collaborating on documents without having to resort to unsightly e-mail newsletters or time-consuming searches for the most relevant and latest document versions. Some basic function widgets (such as those featuring local and company news) as well as the general file storage area are receiving less usage than expected. However, that's also a positive part of the process: to see how employees embrace and develop these tools while incorporating them into their own workspaces. My views regarding the app were proven by a survey conducted one year after its release: 63.2% of all participants stated they always feel well-informed with myFRoSTA! 73.3% of participants from our international sales offices stated that myFRoSTA! has enhanced their identification with company objectives.

Creating a virtual office for a staff of 1,600: story of FRoSTA

63.2%

73.3%

Andrea van Bezouwen

Intranet Coordinator, FRoSTA LLC

Background

Challenge

Solution

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