Deskless, not voiceless: The rise (and benefits) of ongoing frontline employee feedback
The key to a healthier, more engaged workforce lies in establishing a culture of ongoing feedback.
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Sona and Retinue announce a landmark partnership for Social Care.
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This partnership bridges the gap between workforce technology and agency & bank staff management, to increase efficiency and reduce costs for providers.
By coming together and connecting our tech, Retinue and Sona ensure every social care organisation can seamlessly deploy, source, engage, and manage their permanent workforce, agency workers, and bank members using one simple end-to-end platform.
“At Sona, we are passionate about replacing legacy systems with modern technology to help Social Care providers thrive. That’s why we are excited about our partnership with Retinue - a modern tech company dedicated to partnering with its customers and delivering excellent services, just like Sona.”
Steffen Wulff Petersen, Sona Co-Founder
Gaps in rotas, wasted money, complex management processes and poor frontline experiences just came to an end, for good.
Connecting Retinue and Sona is game changing for Social Care. One platform can be used to manage and engage permanent workers whilst roster gaps can be seamlessly filled with compliant, best-cost Bank and agency staff. No more risks, rota gaps or wasted money!
Jon Bennett, Retinue CEO
About Sona: Backed by Google’s Gradient Ventures, Sona is the next generation workforce management platform for frontline enterprises, where consumer grade design is matched by enterprise complexity and AI driven decision making. Sona helps consolidate fragmented technology stacks by replacing up to 10 point solutions with Sona’s modular all-in-one platform.
About Retinue: With Retinue, the shift-based workforce is optimised. Retinue's platform delivers benefits across cost reduction, compliance improvement, continuity of worker supply, and better control. With £600m of agency spend under management, more than 40 different clients and 600 agencies using Retinue, they have a the ability to provide a safe and compliant supply of workers.
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