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Employee communication during mergers & acquisitions

Seamlessly combine separate businesses into a single high velocity enterprise with Unily.

Combining business entities into a single enterprise is challenging. Navigate these complexities with ease using M&A communications software. Reduce employee churn and the time it takes to get employees up to date with the latest processes. Calm the culture clash and misalignment by easily scaling engagement and knowledge access. Make resource-intensive comms a thing of the past, unify once-disparate companies into a single platform that brings people, knowledge, and technology together. Ensure employee communication during mergers and acquisitions is at the forefront.

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Navigate complex M&A with the most sophisticated employee engagement platform.

Support merging cultures
Centralize critical comms
Streamline change management
Effortless personalization
Align & engage at scale
Simplify your migration

Support merging cultures

Successful mergers and acquisitions require the fast and effective assimilation of unique cultures and identities. Lay the foundations for a united future with a central platform that brings people together. Engage and align employees around shared purpose and values.

Amplify key messages from leaders and build trust with inbuilt feedback mechanisms. Fast track networking with social features that empower colleagues to connect over shared interests and collaborate on joint ventures.

Centralize critical comms

In times of disruption, clear communication is key. Give employees a single destination for all the information they need to navigate change with confidence.

Distribute consistent messaging across multiple channels with ease, leveraging integrations with Slack and Teams to meet employees where they are, or use the Broadcast Center for emails, mobile push notifications, and alerts.

Use AI-powered translation services to talk to every colleague in their mother-tongue. Enable crystal clear understanding with an on-demand Change Hub that keeps all the latest updates and key resources at the fingertips of every employee.

Streamline change management

When change is introduced steadily and strategically, it’s easier to swallow. Guide your employees through disruption with consumer-grade features designed to build engagement over time.

Create structured Journeys and Campaigns that lead your employees through the M&A transition, weaving together fragmented content into a cohesive story. Use marketing-grade functionality to give your merger and acquisition communications the feel of an external campaign.

Capture robust analytics that tell you how employees are responding to change and collect deep insights that help you optimize your strategy as you go.

Effortless personalization

Mergers and acquisitions will impact different employees in different ways. Ensure every employee feels seen and heard with a personalized approach that uses a combination of employee and content data to keep your people updated with the information that matters most to them.

Take the pain out of delivering hyper-relevant communications with a sophisticated communications platform built to handle complex enterprise needs. Segment your audience to target communications based on role, location, or other relevant characteristics, and let employees choose additional threads to follow with personalization features that cater to individual preferences.

Align & engage at scale

Keeping a pulse of how your people are responding to change helps you stay ahead of potential roadblocks. Embed listening mechanisms throughout your communications with in-built forms, surveys, polls, and social features that give every employee a voice.

Capture feedback with ease and show employees you care about how they feel. Understand how people are reacting to updates in real time and identify points of attrition promptly so they can be addressed before frustration sets in.

Simplify your migration

A simplified migration during M&A’s relies on legacy tools and applications integrating seamlessly.

Give employees a central platform that leads them effortlessly to all the tools they need to get work done and empower them with easy-to-absorb guidance on how to get started with unfamiliar apps.

Ensure knowledge doesn’t get lost by integrating myriad repositories into a single platform that lets you search across systems to access enterprise knowledge old and new in one place.

Successful mergers and acquisitions require the fast and effective assimilation of unique cultures and identities. Lay the foundations for a united future with a central platform that brings people together. Engage and align employees around shared purpose and values.

Amplify key messages from leaders and build trust with inbuilt feedback mechanisms. Fast track networking with social features that empower colleagues to connect over shared interests and collaborate on joint ventures.

In times of disruption, clear communication is key. Give employees a single destination for all the information they need to navigate change with confidence.

Distribute consistent messaging across multiple channels with ease, leveraging integrations with Slack and Teams to meet employees where they are, or use the Broadcast Center for emails, mobile push notifications, and alerts.

Use AI-powered translation services to talk to every colleague in their mother-tongue. Enable crystal clear understanding with an on-demand Change Hub that keeps all the latest updates and key resources at the fingertips of every employee.

When change is introduced steadily and strategically, it’s easier to swallow. Guide your employees through disruption with consumer-grade features designed to build engagement over time.

Create structured Journeys and Campaigns that lead your employees through the M&A transition, weaving together fragmented content into a cohesive story. Use marketing-grade functionality to give your merger and acquisition communications the feel of an external campaign.

Capture robust analytics that tell you how employees are responding to change and collect deep insights that help you optimize your strategy as you go.

Mergers and acquisitions will impact different employees in different ways. Ensure every employee feels seen and heard with a personalized approach that uses a combination of employee and content data to keep your people updated with the information that matters most to them.

Take the pain out of delivering hyper-relevant communications with a sophisticated communications platform built to handle complex enterprise needs. Segment your audience to target communications based on role, location, or other relevant characteristics, and let employees choose additional threads to follow with personalization features that cater to individual preferences.

Keeping a pulse of how your people are responding to change helps you stay ahead of potential roadblocks. Embed listening mechanisms throughout your communications with in-built forms, surveys, polls, and social features that give every employee a voice.

Capture feedback with ease and show employees you care about how they feel. Understand how people are reacting to updates in real time and identify points of attrition promptly so they can be addressed before frustration sets in.

A simplified migration during M&A’s relies on legacy tools and applications integrating seamlessly.

Give employees a central platform that leads them effortlessly to all the tools they need to get work done and empower them with easy-to-absorb guidance on how to get started with unfamiliar apps.

Ensure knowledge doesn’t get lost by integrating myriad repositories into a single platform that lets you search across systems to access enterprise knowledge old and new in one place.

Explore Customer Stories

Across the globe, in every industry, Unily is empowering workforces to connect and thrive.

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27%

SharePoint cost savings through portal consolidation after the merger

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Two huge global brands Dorma and Kaba merged to form dormakaba. As part of the strategy for managing the transition internally, the enterprise sought to implement a new intranet that could be used as a tool for unifying employees and keeping them informed and productive throughout a period of intense change.

Adrian Gagala
Team Leader Collaboration & HR Systems, Group IT
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Hospitality
99%

adoption across Atlantis Dubai's 6,000+ staff

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“The last few years have been a record-breaking success for Kerzner International... It’s no coincidence that the advancements we have seen in our colleagues’ emotional engagement have happened in parallel with the evolution of our digital employee experience platform and our partnership with Unily.”

Philippe Zuber
CEO at Kerzner International
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Retail
60k+

employees working across diverse roles and locations, with brands sold in more than 150 countries

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“It was really important that we had a company that could grow with us. We're ambitious here. We really care about employee engagement and employee efficiency... We needed somebody that was going to have the ambition for that. And Unily's has been that partner.”

Kerry O'Donnell
Executive Director Technology Lead for Global Communications and Corporate Functions at The Estée Lauder Companies
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Energy
$41.6m

saved every year in time, due to a 66% increase in productivity

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"We find the Unily tool really good for us because of the ability to easily integrate, particularly around our SharePoint applications. We can also integrate with our other existing tools, like ones we use for expenses, or for timesheet approval, etc."

Jon Salt
Product Line Manager - Communications, Shell
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Travel & Transport
4.9m

user sessions in it's first year of launch, with 79% mobile app users.

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“The introduction of The Hub has transformed the way we connect and interact with our employees globally. The technical qualities of the solution itself and the great care we have taken in its design have combined to enable us to engage with employees who were previously hard to reach. It has provided a brand-enhancing addition to our employee experience”

Tony Reynolds
General Manager of Employee Experience at Cathay Pacific
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Testimonials

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Energy

"We find the Unily tool really good for us because of the ability to easily integrate, particularly around our SharePoint applications. We can also integrate with our other existing tools, like ones we use for expenses, or for timesheet approval, etc."

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Jon Salt Product Line Manager - Communications, Shell
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Hospitality

"The last 12 months have been a record-breaking success for our organization, and it is no coincidence that the growth we are seeing as a business is happening in parallel with our industry-leading engagement program."

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Phillipe Zuber CEO, Kerzner International
stantec
Professional Services

"Our intranet has a high degree of engagement and readership - we're really seeing our community come alive."

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Lui Mancinelli SVP Marketing, Communications and PR, Stantec
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Energy

"We wanted an enhanced intranet platform at Baker Hughes, which would improve our ability to communicate with our employees in real-time and in new ways. We have engaged Unily to help our employees navigate through change and drive results globally."

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Stephanie Hartgrove VP Global Communications, Baker Hughes
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Retail

"Unily fit our vision and met our strict security protocols on the backend. We’re very excited to be working with Unily to design an intranet that will enable our employees to feel more connected."

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Scott Parker Communications Specialist, Best Buy
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Healthcare

"Unily has great search capabilities, contemporary design, is viewable on any device and soon will allow us to reach employees in our distribution centers, labs, and transport networks for the first time. It’s a real game changer for us."

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Kerry Christopher VP Internal Communications, Cardinal Health
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Pharmaceuticals

"Working closely with Unily, we were able to design and implement an intranet solution that has improved usability, accessibility and navigation for our employees across the country."

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Arun Thomas CIO, Dynacare
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Industry

"We look forward to our continued partnership with the Unily team. There are definitely amazing things on the horizon for this solution and we are excited to be a part of this journey and to see our intranet solution grow with it."

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Adrian Gagala Team Leader Collaboration & HR Systems, Group IT

Mergers and Acquisitions FAQs

What does integration mean in M&A?

Integration with regard to mergers and acquisitions means combining two companies into one. This is often accomplished through the use of M&A integration software.

It's the process of aligning two or more companies’ operations, systems, cultures, and strategies with the goal to work together more effectively. It also involves integrating employees after the acquisition or merger so they form one working enterprise, ensuring that both teams feel that they are an equal part of the company.

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Why do M&A integrations fail? M&A integrations fail for various reasons, including:
  • Cultural clashes
  • Inadequate planning
  • Leadership issues
  • Resistance from employees

Success requires careful planning, clear communication, and strategic alignment among leaders, employees, and the company itself.

Employee experience platforms help reduce or remove these pain points entirely, by supporting communication during mergers and acquisitions and keeping employees in the know about any upcoming changes.

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What are the problems faced by M&A integrations? The 10 most common problems of M&A integrations include:
  • Cultural clashes
  • Communication breakdowns
  • Employee uncertainty and resistance
  • Inability to retain talent
  • Operational disruptions
  • Customer dissatisfaction
  • Financial performance challenges
  • Regulatory concerns
  • Lack of integration planning
  • Technology integration challenges
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How can an intranet help M&A integrations?

Intranet software can support M&A integrations by playing a critical role in supporting communication during mergers and acquisitions. They do this by serving as a centralized platform to facilitate communication, collaboration, and alignment with the new organizational structure. Intranets can also be leveraged to communicate merger updates, changes in policies, and other essential information, ensuring transparency and reducing uncertainty among employees.

Forums, chat functionalities, and social collaboration tools within the platform can create a sense of community and help employees from both companies connect and collaborate seamlessly.

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