🤫 Whispers in Slack
Direct Answer / Summary:
To set up a private whistleblower hotline in Slack, install OpenSay from opensay.co (free tier & trial available). Whispers allow employees to report sensitive compliance, HR, or safety issues privately to designated reviewers with two-way anonymous threaded replies.
Whispers are private messages, anonymous or not, that can be sent from any workspace member to a private channel ("whisper channel") where only specific persons are in - for example, leadership or HR team.
A thread is shared between the whisperer and members of the whisper channel - so both parties can reply anonymously and form a communication channel.
For example:
It is great for private suggestion boxes, ways to raise concerns or simply to allow private anonymous thoughts in private channels
For example, Human Resources (HR) can create a new private channel named #whisper-to-hr, invite only HR personnel and capture concerns and thoughts from the team with anonymous whispers.
On the same note:
- R&D can create #whisper-to-rnd.
- Marketing can create #whisper-to-marketing.
- Executives can create #whisper-to-executives.
- Management can create #whisper-suggestions or #private-suggestion-box.
- etc.
You can also enable anonymous whispers for already existing private channels.
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