Employee Community will be replacing the Announcements function, so if Employee Community is enabled, this will remove the option to create company announcements within BambooHR.

Previous announcements can be accessed through the Inbox icon on the top right by selecting the Past Announcements option from the drop-down menu

You can also refer to our Past Announcements  guide for more information.

Yes! Employees can view posts in the mobile app! Since both the Mobile App and Employee Community are relatively new posts can currently only be viewed on the app and any editing or new posts will need to be done on the desktop version of our software.  

The only way to exclude a member from Employee Community would be to remove their access in BambooHR.

New hires will automatically be synced with Employee Community as soon as they have a current hire date and access to log in to BambooHR.

Since only users with profiles are synced with Employee Community, non-employee users (even if they are BambooHR Full Admins) will receive an error if they attempt to access Employee Community.

Users can only draft and publish posts from within Employee Community. However, users can comment on Employee Community posts by replying directly to the Employee Community notification in their email.

Employees' posts remain in Employee Community after termination unless the posts are manually deleted.

While a Full Admin in BambooHR would carry over seamlessly to Employee Community, updating a users status in the Employee Community won't alter their standing in BambooHR or affect their access or permissions anywhere else within the BambooHR system.

We don't allow the embedding of iframes in Employee Community. For more context, the reason that we don't allow iframe embeds from any source is for security purposes. Most iframes are safe, but opening up Employee Community to allow all iframes exposes us to someone creating a malicious iframe that could potentially hijack Employee Community's UI for all Employee Community users, which we wouldn't want!

That being said, we're always looking to add rich content sources/integrations to our post form with sharing via other routes.

Enabling the confirmation feature on a post would automatically disable the comments. This will help prevent a lot of the extra "noise" around the post or to avoid any confusion as we find confirmation posts tend to be important.

You can delete a post by hovering over the post and then click the three-dot button. From here you can choose the option to delete the post:

Since employees are only able to post in Groups, you can restrict posting for regular users on a group level.

By default, every member has the ability to share content in any Group. This setup is meant to promote a diverse range of voices and perspectives within the organization. However we understand that there are instances where not all employees should have the ability to publish in certain Groups. Take, for instance, the HR Policies Group - it wouldn't be appropriate for an intern to make posts there. In cases like this, there's an option to turn off Member Posting for a Group. This restricts the power to publish to just Admins and Moderators.

You can do this by navigating to the group and selecting the three-dot button in the upper right corner then clicking Settings and toggling the Disable Member Posting setting. Once toggled on, only Employee Community Admins and Moderators can post to the specific group.

There are a few options to adding tables in Employee Community, direct file upload, Google drive embed, and markdown.

1. Via a direct file upload. (On the post form: paperclip icon > Upload.) This option works really well if you're sharing a very large set of data. You can play around with the font size and formatting in your Excel doc to ensure the data is readable in the document preview in your post. When viewing this post, employees will be able to view in full screen and download the original file.
2. Via a Google Drive embed. (On the post form: paperclip icon > Google Drive.) This option works really well if you're sharing a set of data that needs to live in Drive and is updated regularly—because when a sheet is updated in Drive, the version in Employee Community automatically updates too. However, Google mandates the size/shape of this embed, which can sometimes make it a little tricky to read. We recommend playing around with the font size and formatting to see if that helps a bit.
3. Tables via markdown. (On the post form: Add Code/Markdown widget.) For security reasons, we do not allow the input of HTML directly into the post form, however, you can create tables using markdown.
   

1. If you're not familiar, with Markdown is a pretty simple formatting language. To create a table in Markdown, simply add a code widget, create your table using the Markdown tool, and publish! The table will appear right in your post. I've attached some screenshot examples of this in action below. Also you can learn all about tables in markdown here. I also really like this table generator that does all the formatting work for you, you just need to input the data.

You can delete a group by navigating to the Company Feed view > Group > Select the group > Select the three-dot button > Settings > Select Delete Group under Maintenance.

If your employees are not receiving Employee Community email alerts, be sure to check the Employee Community group settings and ensure that employees have their notifications turned on in their profile settings.

If you need to make sure that specific information from a group is delivered to employees you can update a group to a Broadcast group which sends an email notification for every new post in the group.

You can add employees to a group through the Invite button by typing in each individual's name, or in bulk by using their department or location.