Post an announcement

Announcements are the official way to share company news — holidays, policy changes, office notices. You choose who sees each one and can ask employees to confirm they have read it.

Before you start

• The Engage module must be in your plan.
• You need the engage.manage permission. Admins without it can't open the page.

Steps

1. Go to Engage → Announcements ( open Announcements).
2. Click New announcement.
3. Enter the Title, e.g. "Office closed on Friday for Diwali".
4. Pick the Category: General, or Event for something with a date and place (see Announce a company event).
5. Pick the Tone: Info, Warning, Urgent or Celebration. It sets the colour and icon employees see.
6. Write the Message.
7. Choose the Audience: Everyone, Departments, Locations, Designations or Specific employees, and tick who should see it.
8. Optionally set Publish at (leave empty to publish now) and Expires at (hidden from employees after that time).
9. Tick Pin to top to keep it above other announcements, and Require acknowledgement if employees must confirm they read it.
10. Click Publish, or Save as draft to finish later.

Manage announcements

• The cards show Live now, Scheduled, Drafts and Pending acknowledgements.
• Tabs: Active, Drafts, Scheduled, All, Expired, Archived. Filter by search text, type, tone and date range.
• The icons on each row are Details, Edit, Publish now (drafts and expired ones), Unpublish (back to draft), Pin to top / Unpin, Archive / Restore to drafts and Delete. Hover over an icon to see its name.
• The acknowledgement column shows how many of the audience have confirmed so far.

See who has read it

1. Click an announcement's title.
2. The cards show the Audience, how many have Read it, how many Acknowledged and who is Yet to acknowledge.
3. Under Who has seen it, switch between Everyone, Not read, Not acknowledged and Acknowledged to see names.