We’re Extraordinary!

Jostle picture that hangs in the BBD Kingston Office

Just over two years ago, I joined this weird and wonderful organization called Benefits by Design (BBD).

With offices across Canada, one of the biggest challenges we faced was bringing together a distributed team. Cross-offices, employees didn’t have the opportunity to get to know their colleagues. Email inboxes were saturated before your day began, as one office would be in the midst of their work day before the other one would have started. Information was being shared as email attachments and not stored in one centralized location. In essence, we were a bit of a hot mess.

Too many emails!

Then we found Jostle — our employee intranet.

The Jostle platform has become a regular dimension of work, culture, and collaboration here at BBD. It lets us celebrate accomplishments, share through provoking content, and just be ourselves. From funny polls (“Who wore it better?”) to policy updates, Jostle is a space for BBD to connect and build an extraordinary organization. “Jostle it” is even a verb here, meaning to share something as content.

Jostle runs a yearly awards program. This year, BBD was nominated for the Rookie of the Year (under 250 employees) — an award that goes to the organization with the best implementation, launch, and intranet sustainment activities.

BBD was also nominated for Jostle Ambassador of the Year (under 250 employees) — an award that goes to the person most passionate about promoting their Jostle Intranet in their workplace. While one person can inspire passion unto others, it takes a team to actually make change happen. While I was the recipient of the Jostle Ambassador of the Year award — BBD as a whole is the winner.

So congratulations fellow BBD-ers — you deserve it! Our organization would not be extraordinary without you!

Watch our acceptance video:

BBD Workplace

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