Anonymity Lets You Be Whoever You Are And Express Your True Opinions
– What are the company employees really saying about the merger?
– Are employees really pleased with the latest pay increase offer?
– What are the things that get on the nerves of your colleagues. What are their pet grievances?
– What are the unspoken ideas and suggestions that could revive a company in crisis?
Yammer, Socialcast and others like them allow office colleagues to collaborate and have dialogue within the firewall or outside it. Now we have an app that allows users to have office banter but with a difference. Anonymity…
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“We Don’t Need No Thought Control”
The OfficeWall app enables users to express their thoughts in an anonymous way, openly having conversations with colleagues. When users are invited to the app they have to enter their work email address. This is the mechanism that allocates new users to the discussion stream about their company. Users cannot see all the different company discussions going on within the app. No one can see email addresses or names or login codes of any other user. All they can see is the stream of discussions based on their own company.
The OfficeWall app encourages users to make their work experience better. Primarily this is achieved by users being able to express their feelings and to make suggestions without disclosing their names – “Do good.. avoid whining!”
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Users can invite colleagues and still remain anonymous. The invite turns up in the company email and states that someone in your company has invited you to the OfficeWall app. Once users are up and running they can switch on notifications and decide to follow particular conversations.
It is unlikely that you would have heard of this app via social media as it hardly has any momentum. There was a small spike of conversations about the OfficeWall app on May 26th 2015, mainly driven by a tweet from Samuel Burke, who is CNN’s business correspondent and host of the iReport TV Show.
https://twitter.com/samuelcnn/status/603169575723737088
“All In All It’s Just Another Brick In The Wall”
How can you install the app? OfficeWall is available on iOS and Android. The OfficeWall app encourages uses to connect via their own personal internet connections and not their company network and WiFi services. The OfficeWall app claims that submissions from its users are secured using a high-level SSL encryption. OfficeWall is a small company that was founded in 2014 and has a LinkedIn company page which has only 3 followers to date and no updates.
“If Push Comes To Shove…”
Could there ever be a situation when OfficeWall would pass on the information within its servers? If push came to shove maybe? OfficeWall have stated the following*
“As much as we’d like to keep you anonymous, if we’re asked by a court to disclose your identity, we may be compelled to do so. If we do happen to receive a subpoena or court order requesting that we disclose your information, we will attempt contact you if reasonably feasible before disclosing any information to give you time to defend your rights and object to that subpoena in court”
and..
“We reserve the right to transfer information in the event of a transfer of ownership of OfficeWall, such as acquisition by or merger with another company.
What Impact Will The OfficeWall App Have On Your Company?
This is the question that many companies might start asking themselves. Senior managers and directors would like to know what their own staff are really thinking and the staff members might like to know what their senior managers and directors say when they cannot be identified. If a company is going through a merger or being acquired HR managers might like to take a peak at how people in the company really think about it all. If your company has a presence in the OfficeWall app, you might want to add it to your list of information sources about the latest opinion and suggestions and ideas.
It might not be all negative and maybe the best and honest feedback on the latest company changes are to be found there. Who knows? There is only one way to find out and you know what that is…
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References:
*OfficeWall Privacy notice.
Credits:
Another Brick In the Wall Lyric excerpts written by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.
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Oh how I would like to get my hands on an API for that app!
That would really deliver interesting content to the floor.