# Alerts

#### Emergency Alerts

Use alerts to communicate time-sensitive and crucial information to the entire organization or specific teams and groups. Out-of-the-box templates cover the majority of common organizational alerts or create your own, draft/preview your message visually and select delivery channels prior to distribution.

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#### Immediately Reach Your Workforce

Communicate urgent time-sensitive information to the entire organization or specific groups and teams with alerts.

* Keep employees updated and informed on potential workplace emergencies
* Send out alerts to mobile devices, reaching employees wherever they are
* Create a ‘must-read’ alert to ensure your employees have seen the information

#### Easy Segmentation

Send out critical alerts to segments of your workforce based on team, location, or role, ensuring that only impacted employees are notified.

#### Alert Templates

Create unplanned company communications quickly with 20+ customizable alert templates ranging across several emergency categories, or create your own custom templates.

#### Multi-Channel Communications

Send alerts through multiple delivery channels, such as text, mobile push notifications, or email, to ensure you reach all employees in real-time.

#### Alert Scheduling

Draft and save alerts to be published at a future date to ensure the most effective timing for alerts to be seen by employees.

#### Ensure Your Alerts Are Seen

See who has read your alert in real time, and resend with escalated urgency to those who missed it.

#### Text-to-Speech

Improve accessibility by enabling employees to interpret alerts by listening to text-to-speech messages, no matter where they are.

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