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YOOBIC Communities Give Retailers and Restaurants a Secret Weapon to Combat Employee Turnover
Frontline employee experience software pioneer unveils brand new features to boost morale, build a culture of community, and keep employees engaged
NEW YORK and LONDON and PARIS, dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — YOOBIC, the innovator of the all-in-one Frontline Employee Experience Platform, today announced the launch of YOOBIC Communities, a powerful expansion of the YOOBIC app designed to enable companies with frontline workers to drive engagement and give employees a shared space to build collaboration, camaraderie, and a sense of common purpose. The feature launch cements YOOBIC’s place as the premiere Frontline Employee Experience Platform (FEXP) for today’s most demanding distributed enterprises.
YOOBIC’s game-changing mobile app is already trusted by 350 global brands including top retailers and restaurants such as Levi’s, francesca’s, Lacoste, Boots, BurgerFi, and Lidl. The Communities feature empowers frontline teams to easily create common-interest networks and design and launch their own micro-communities within the organization. The result: organic team building based on meaningful friendships and rich new opportunities for mutual support, collaboration and innovation.
With employers still feeling the impact of the Great Resignation and broader labor shortages, YOOBIC Communities offers an important tool to create engagement and boost employee retention. According to Gallop’s State of The Global Workplace 2022 report, only 21% of workers are engaged at work. Research shows that employees want to feel like they belong and they are part of something bigger than themselves. That is exactly what YOOBIC’s Communities feature delivers—giving frontline teams a real stake in their organizations and the ability to shape and take ownership of their company’s culture.
“We have really transformed the way we work at Francesca’s with YOOBIC,” said Sarah Brown, director, field training and guest experience. “YOOBIC was a critical tool to transition from email and streamline communications with our store teams. We really love the Communities feature. It’s another layer that brings our team together in a meaningful way and it has been a game-changer.”
YOOBIC Communities is an engagement-driving tool for a generation of digital-native workers raised on social media. The results have been striking. In the Beta test group, weekly logins increased by 33% per user. Employees were also markedly more involved with the platform: Communities drove 43% more engagement than the top-down digital Newsfeed, which already achieved great results. These numbers show targeted engagement and employee experience are drivers in the adoption and use of digital tools for frontline workers.
“We strive to build a family unit at francesca’s,” said Katie Kepic, district team leader, francesca’s. “We want a strong sense of camaraderie and community when it comes to peer-to-peer engagement. Our teams are utilizing YOOBIC Communities to embrace our districts and be inclusive. Everyone can get to know each other and celebrate all things francesca’s throughout the day in the app. It’s given us the ability to transition away from email and really create a place of support and engagement for our teams.”
“At YOOBIC, we know that meaningful employee engagement is the key to boosting employee morale and performance—as well as the agility, resilience, and profitability of the organization as a whole. The Community feature was designed to organically elevate that engagement and bring frontline teams together in a powerful and effective way,” stated Fabrice Haiat, YOOBIC CEO and co-founder. “Our app is the critical space where workplace orchestration meets employee experience, and as the category-defining FEXP innovator, we’re determined to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for the success of our customers.”
About YOOBIC
YOOBIC is an all-in-one frontline employee experience platform. Our mobile app gives business leaders and frontline teams the performance tools they need to communicate, learn, and work—all in one place. With streamlined communications, mobile learning, and digitized task management, YOOBIC drives operational excellence while drastically improving the frontline employee working experience. 350+ companies around the world including Boots, BurgerFi, Lancôme, Lacoste, Levi’s, Logitech, Peloton, Puma, and Vans trust YOOBIC to improve operational consistency and agility, get real-time visibility into multi-location business execution, and improve customer experience . To learn more about YOOBIC, visit www.yoobic.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
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Ninety Nine Restaurant abruptly closes three CT locations
Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, a Massachusetts-based chain of family-friendly restaurants, abruptly closed three locations in Connecticut Monday.
A spokesperson for the chain confirmed Tuesday that Ninety Nine had closed its restaurants in Cromwell, Groton and Stratford on Nov. 28, effective immediately.
“The Ninety Nine is in the process of transferring Team Members to our other restaurant locations in Connecticut or offering them severance packages,” the company said in the statement. “The Ninety Nine values its guests and the local communities, and thanks everyone for their patronage.”
Remaining Ninety Nine restaurants are in Bristol, Enfield, Glastonbury, Killingly, Norwich, Torrington, Vernon and Wallingford.
The chain, based in Woburn, Mass., has more than 100 locations in New England and New York state, with the bulk of the restaurants in Massachusetts. The website Boston Restaurant Talk noted that Ninety-Nine has closed three locations in the Bay State this year, most recently its Canton restaurant on Nov. 27.
National diner chain Denny’s has also closed multiple locations in Connecticut this fall. Restaurants in Enfield, West Haven, Wethersfield and Vernon suddenly closed between Sept. 5 and Oct. 17, leaving four remaining Denny’s in the state.
Drink This Every Night Before Bed To Lower Your Blood Sugar
There’s been plenty of buzz around apple cider vinegar (ACV) in recent years. You may have seen it recommended for various ailments, and thanks to its promised health benefits, ACV has become quite popular. But this isn’t just another wellness trend without any science to back it up: Studies around ACV seem to confirm that it really can be beneficial for our health. And if you struggle to regulate your blood sugar, apple cider vinegar could be the answer you’ve been looking for.
While its popularity might be relatively recent, ACV is nothing new. The vinegar, which is made by fermenting crushed apples with probiotics that turn its sugar into acetic acid, has been used as a home remedy for centuries. This compound has a myriad of health benefits, including lowering cholesterol. Key research has also found that it’s an effective way to regulate blood sugar.
How to make apple cider vinegar lower blood sugar?
“A number of studies suggest that vinegar might prevent spikes in blood sugar in people with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes by blocking starch absorption,” according to Harvard researcher Robert H. Shmerling, MD. In fact, Arizona State University testing shows that vinegar can blunt blood sugar spikes.
One study on people who have type 2 diabetes (which means the body has trouble using insulin properly) found that drinking ACV every night before bed reduced their resting blood sugar levels in the morning. This is likely due to the acetic acid in vinegar, which has an antiglycemic effect. Here’s how it works: Starch, which we get from foods like potatoes and pasta, is full of glucose and can therefore cause blood sugar to spike. But acetic acid helps us absorb less glucose.
How To Use Apple Cider Vinegar To Lower Blood Sugar
Participants in the Arizona State University study took about two tablespoons of ACV every night, which you can dilute with water to make it more palatable. That won’t affect the vinegar’s benefits, and will also give you a boost of hydration before bed. Just make sure to brush your teeth after, since vinegar can be harmful to tooth enamel.
Struggling with high blood sugar and diabetes can feel overwhelming, but eating a healthy diet, along with taking a daily dose of ACV, can put you on the path to better health. As always, make sure to consult your doctor before starting a new regimen to ensure it’s the right thing for you.