With the recent COVID-19 Pandemic and so much of the global workforce working remotely, employee communications has taken on a greater level of importance. Whether it be daily updates or critical company policy changes and announcements, expedient and direct communications is now not only required, it is critical to an organization’s ability to operate. Communications professionals are the ones confronted with the business challenge of getting information to, communicating and engaging with employees. However, in many instances, communications teams are thinly staffed and its professionals, who are responsible for communicating with employees are also responsible for all other communications requirements, and therefore are constantly being pulled into different directions losing the ability to focus on this critical company autidence. Enter ECA Consulting Group, founded by Jeff Corbin, the CEO and founder of APPrise Mobile and theEMPLOYEEapp as well as the former CEO of KCSA Strategic Communications. After selling APPrise Mobile to a private equity firm in 2019, Jeff created ECA Consulting to offer his decades of experience helping Communications and IT professionals implement best practices to be more effective and efficient in their work through the use of technology, better communicate with and enhance the employee experience, and smartly navigate the increasingly complex Employee Communications Applications market (ECA) as defined by technology research group Gartner.