There's a whole workforce waiting to be unlocked
What are you here to fix?
Cut through the noise. Blink puts company news, critical updates, and leadership comms directly into the pockets of your frontline workers. With targeted push notifications and a mobile-first feed, you guarantee your message is seen—without needing corporate email addresses.
Unregulated WhatsApp chats are a security nightmare and blur work-life boundaries. Blink gives your team a secure, fully compliant chat platform built specifically for work. Protect company data, keep conversations professional, and let your team truly disconnect when they clock out.
Operations move fast. Blink integrates seamlessly with your existing scheduling and HR tools to make shift swaps, daily briefings, and on-the-fly updates effortless. Ensure every worker starts their day aligned and knowing exactly what needs to be done.
Distributed workers often feel invisible. Blink helps you build a culture of appreciation with instant, peer-to-peer recognition. Let managers and colleagues shout out great work directly on the company feed, turning daily successes into company-wide celebrations that boost retention.
Ditch the paper binders and noticeboards. Blink lets you digitize processes and roll out new policies instantly. Send mandatory reads with digital sign-offs, giving you real-time tracking and reporting to ensure 100% compliance across your entire workforce.
Stop paying for clunky tools your team ignores. Blink brings your scattered HR, payroll, and ops systems into one intuitive, mobile-first app. Give your frontline a frictionless "single pane of glass" experience they’ll actually want to use, driving adoption rates to 90% or higher.
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Where Staffbase falls short.
What Blink covers
Ops, Comms, and HR. One platform, one plan.
Two products. Two strategies.
An enterprise intranet and a frontline platform aren't the same thing.
Two products. Two very different audiences.
Staffbase starts at ~£19,750. Blink starts at £35.40 per year.
Where Blink wins.
Five reasons Blink. is the better choice for frontline teams that Staffbase prices out, overcomplicates, or leaves behind.
No channel chaos.
Slack's power is its flexibility — hundreds of channels, threads, integrations. For knowledge workers, that's brilliant. For a frontline worker coming off a shift, it's chaos. Blink's company feed delivers what matters in priority order. Critical updates land at the top. Staff don't have to hunt for them.
Everyone in. No work account needed.
Slack requires a work email or SSO to join. Frontline workers without a corporate account can't get in. Blink works with a personal email or phone number. That means 100% of your team can be reached from day one — not just the ones with a desk.
Half the price. All the features.
Slack's power is its flexibility — hundreds of channels, threads, integrations. For knowledge workers, that's brilliant. For a frontline worker coming off a shift, it's chaos. Blink's company feed delivers what matters in priority order. Critical updates land at the top. Staff don't have to hunt for them.
Analytics that prove it's working.
Slack's power is its flexibility — hundreds of channels, threads, integrations. For knowledge workers, that's brilliant. For a frontline worker coming off a shift, it's chaos. Blink's company feed delivers what matters in priority order. Critical updates land at the top. Staff don't have to hunt for them.
Built for mobile. Not adapted for it.
Slack was designed for desktop screens. Blink was built for the phone in your frontline worker's pocket. The feed, chat, documents, and notifications all work natively on mobile — without the interface clutter that makes Slack hard to navigate on a small screen.Blink. integrates with the scheduling tools you already use, plus Workday, ADP, iTrent, Okta, Microsoft 365, and more. We sit at the comms, engagement, knowledge, and HR ops layer all in one plan.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Blink. has no minimum contract size or employee threshold. It works for teams of 10 and organizations of 50,000. Staffbase is built for enterprises of 1,000+ employees, and its pricing and implementation model reflect that.
Blink. is self-serve, and most organizations are live within a day. Staffbase typically takes 60 to 90 days to implement and needs dedicated IT and communications resource throughout.
For frontline and deskless teams, yes. Blink. covers news feed, secure chat, document hub, shift integrations, forms, surveys, and analytics in one app. Staffbase is primarily an intranet and content publishing platform. If your workforce is frontline, Blink. is built for your use case where Staffbase is not.
Yes. Blink. works with organizations of 50,000+ employees. Stagecoach, Go North West, and Elara Caring all run Blink. across large, distributed frontline teams. Enterprise plans include dedicated support, custom integrations, and SLA-backed uptime.
Blink.'s implementation team handles content migration as part of onboarding. Policies, documents, and hub content transfer across, and your customer success manager walks you through the process before you go live.
Staffbase doesn't publish pricing. Based on verified buyer data, contracts start at around £19,750 a year with a 1,000-employee minimum, and implementation adds £11,850 to £59,250 more. Blink. starts at £2.95 per user per month, with no minimum contract size and no onboarding fees.
