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Life & fun · March 10, 2017

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Niko – Employee Engagement Is Broken – Here’s How to Fix It

Hi HN! I’m Jared, founder at Niko - https://www.getniko.com/. If you want to make your company a great(er) place to work and want to know what is important to the people you work with, you should try Niko. It is currently in beta. It’s easy to create a group. You can even connect it to Slack. Backstory: I was working at a company where the leaders actively covered up problems and hindered the free flow of information. The health of the company and the people working there was suffering accordingly and it wasn’t solely because our office was in the basement of a converted…

Niko – Employee Engagement Is Broken – Here’s How to Fix It launched on March 10, 2017 with 10 votes, #1,017 of 3,481 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

In plain words

Niko is a beta platform that helps companies understand what matters to their employees by giving workers a voice in the organization. The tool allows managers to easily create groups and connect them to Slack for feedback collection and discussion. It addresses the problem of information flow within companies by enabling employees to share concerns and ideas that might otherwise go unheard by leadership.

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Hi HN! I’m Jared, founder at Niko - https://www.getniko.com/. If you want to make your company a great(er) place to work and want to know what is important to the people you work with, you should try Niko. It is currently in beta. It’s easy to create a group. You can even connect it to Slack.…

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