Employee wellbeing be it physical and mental has been an ongoing struggle for organizations since the COVID-19 pandemic struck. It is not easy to strike a balance between healthy monitoring of employee wellbeing and the urge to maintain constant communication via a catch up or check in between managers and colleagues. Organizations are looking for methods to help employees to remain focused on the job while not getting burned out by the new ways of working. The lack of face to face communication between colleagues due to remote work conditions has affected the camaraderie and networking that one cultivates at work.
Digital Solutions for Employee Wellness
With the rise of no code software tools with built in integrations, it is becoming increasingly easy to test various options that can address the issues with employee wellbeing. There are two tools that would be explored in tandem for this article due to the simplicity and ease of deployment.
Typically, organizations organizes a design workshop with an external party e.g consulting firm with their best practices and industry nous to offer solutions to the problems faced by the organizations. To do that, typically it involves some upfront costs that may get canned due to lack of budget and the demand for solutions just stops there.
In order to be agile and creative, it makes more sense for a Head of IT or IT business partner of any organization to understand the requirements and put together a working proof of concept without needing to spend money on external tools for a pilot. In order to do that, the IT business partner would need a simple tool that can display the functionality in a visually appealing method without spending too much time in developing and troubleshooting the tool.
Magic tool — Streamlit
Streamlit is a data web application that turns data scripts into shareable web apps in minutes. It requires no front‑end experience required and is a favored tool used by data scientists. All that it requires is for a working knowledge of Python and you are good to go. Streamlit Cloud allows you to share apps in one click and collaborate instantly with live code updates.
Chatbot tool — Landbot.io
Landbot.io is a powerful no code chatbot builder that can convert leads, capture data an personalize user journeys. It can help to deploy conversational experiences in a matter of minutes with it’s ready made templates for lead generation and survey/quizzes.
Pain points or Requirements
A mood checker that can detect the employee mood based on the sentiment analysis of the chat responses. The sentiment detected would be triggered to perform custom events such as recommending shoe retailer’s discounted sales or Spotify playlist for meditation or even a health checkup package offered by the organization’s insurance provider
What can Streamlit and Landbot.io do?
Firstly, Streamlit can be used to present the requirements in a single web page followed by the functionality of the Landbot chatbot that can demonstrate how it meets the requirements.
Next, Landbot.io can be used for a short period of 5 days after registering for free to test out the chatbot templates or to build a customized flow and actions triggers for this requirement. This has been achieved based on Landbot.io key functions. On top of that, it is possible to export the conversation flow as seen on the Landbot.io canvas as PNG so that it is clear how the chatbot flow is defined.
Enough talk, let’s see some action
Streamlit and Streamlit Cloud(Share)
Key Takeways
- If your organization supports the use of Python, Streamlit can be a useful tool for anyone looking to demonstrate a web application quickly.
- There are other alternative tools that can be used to demonstrate a proof of concept but in this instance, the learning curve only requires mastering 1 language — Python as opposed to learning Javascript,HTML and etc.
- Streamlit has it’s limitations but would be an asset for organizations that are currently using Snowflake as Snowflake has recently acquired Streamlit.
