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title: "Keep frontline workers connected: 5 questions to ask"
description: Ask these five questions to help choose an interoperable and compliant workplace messaging that can address the frontline’s shadow IT issues.
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## Keep frontline workers connected: 5 questions to ask.

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53% of frontline workers use unapproved consumer-grade messaging apps.

That’s because they are either expected to use a traditional office-based system on their phone, or are left to find their own solution.

As a result, frontline conversations are left trapped in a siloed consumer messaging app causing serious problems around workflow, data management and compliance.

Ask yourself five questions to help choose an interoperable and compliant workplace messaging that can address the frontline’s shadow IT issues.

**For more detail, download the info sheet. **

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