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# 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.
#### 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.