This article explores how integrating Slack and Teams with your intranet can enhance multichannel capabilities, boost adoption and engagement, and spur innovation. You’ll learn the advantages, best practices, and tips you need to take advantage of these workplace collaboration apps.
Workplace collaboration apps Slack and Teams, which now boast a combined 385 million monthly users, have become an essential part of daily operations for today’s organizations. They’ve proven indispensable in facilitating communication among coworkers, but that’s not all – they also present an opportunity to enhance our intranets.
The integrations available with modern intranets allow us to harness Teams and Slack in new ways, expanding their use from messaging to something much more powerful. Utilizing an existing, high-use platform to uplevel your multichannel communication strategy and enhance your intranet’s capabilities isn’t just a nice-to-have. With employee engagement hitting new lows in 2025, it’s essential to take advantage of every opportunity to reach and connect with your workforce. The right Teams and Slack integrations will help you do just that, without increasing workload.
Read on to learn about the four most impactful Slack and Teams integrations, seven ways using them can improve your digital workplace, and practical use cases for implementation.
The power of Slack and Teams
Slack and Teams make up a significant and essential part of daily life for desked workers (they can also have heavy use from members of other employee groups, depending on the organization). This is where employees go to ask questions of their colleagues, exchange time-sensitive updates, request support, or simply connect socially.
According to data from Slack, 62% of Slack users spend over three hours per day on the app. Employees who work with Teams have even higher usage numbers, as they’re typically using the platform for virtual meetings as well.
Using Slack and Teams as part of your internal communications technology strategy means a greater reach and an attentive audience. Sharing intranet content there is a must, and integrations make this easy. In addition, because employees are on these apps so often, integrations that bring your intranet’s capabilities right to Teams make a huge difference in driving traffic and allowing users to get the most out of their digital workplace.
Four Slack and Teams integrations to superpower your workplace
1. Use Slack and Teams to amplify your intranet content
One of the most powerful ways to use Slack and Teams is to push out your intranet content through them. This approach gets your messaging in front of segmented, attentive audiences on channels they already spend a great deal of time on.
There are a few different factors that make these apps ideal for amplifying your internal communications content and driving traffic to your intranet. Because employees are on Teams and Slack for such a significant portion of the workday, messages there are usually noticed and read more quickly than emails or intranet notifications. At the same time, employees are accustomed to receiving Slack and Teams communications that have varying levels of importance, so notifications don’t generate the same level of disruption (and potential annoyance) that SMS alerts do. Additionally, you can use preexisting channels to easily target specific groups of workers by categories such as type of role, location, or department.
It is important to note that various employee groups may have differing Slack and Teams usage patterns. Although more frontline workers are gaining access to these apps, those who are deskless may be away from their devices for extended periods of time. This means they may not receive time-sensitive updates as quickly as their desked colleagues.
How it works
A full-featured multichannel intranet makes the process of sharing intranet content via Teams and Slack seamless and instant. For example, when you publish a page on your intranet using Interact’s content management tools, you’ll always have the option to promote it on a variety of channels, and that includes Teams or Slack.
When you choose to promote your intranet content via one of these apps, you’ll have the option to select a Slack or Teams channel (for example, Chicago Office or Marketing Team), or several channels at once, to promote it on. Once you’ve made your selection, a short description and link to the page is published directly to that channel for all members to see. As part of the Block Editor’s features, you can preview your message first to see how it will look to your audience, as well as schedule it for a later date.
After you share content via Slack or Teams, don’t forget to use your intranet’s data analytics to fine-tune your strategy. Look at past performance to evaluate efficacy for various scenarios and adjust your approach accordingly.
Use cases for sharing intranet content on Slack and Teams
There are countless ways to amplify your intranet comms to various internal audiences using Slack and Teams. Here are a few examples:
- A new product update posted on the intranet can be shared easily and instantly with employees in the Sales and Marketing departments via Teams so that they can ensure they’re communicating the latest offerings to potential customers.
- A post directed at managers that explains a change to the company’s performance review process can be pushed out through the “Managers” Slack channel for increased visibility.
- As part of a campaign around open enrollment, content reminding all United States–based employees that the enrollment deadline is approaching, along with an FAQ, can be promoted on a “US” Teams channel.
- A Slack channel for all employees working from a specific office location can be used to share an intranet post that covers the process for obtaining updated security badges.
- After an important leadership update, a CEO vlog or blog on your intranet that provides more details can be shared via the “General” Teams channel that all employees are subscribed to.
2. Bring Teams and Slack into your intranet
With modern intranet capabilities, you can bring the important conversations that are taking place on these third-party communication apps right into your employee experience platform.
Integrations make it possible to add Slack and Teams widgets to intranet homepages or team areas. These typically highlight a specific channel (e.g., Sales, New York Office, General) and pull the conversation into your intranet in real time. This high-level view of relevant discussions reduces noise and clutter so that employees can be more focused in the digital workplace.
3. Bring your intranet to Teams
Context switching is one of the most common drains on employee productivity. According to research from Cornell University’s Ellis Idea Lab, the average employee reports spending 36 minutes navigating back and forth between applications each day, and nine and a half minutes getting back into a good workflow once they’ve switched. Integrating your intranet directly into your organization’s Teams app can help reduce this.
With this integration, employees have full access to your intranet within Teams, so they won’t have to navigate to a web browser or mobile app. They can read updates, contribute with content or comments, complete workflows, access information, and do anything else they would typically do using your intranet.
Embedding your intranet into Microsoft Teams gives workers the power of the intranet on an app they already use, while improving organizational knowledge sharing and promoting higher intranet usage. This makes it an enormous advantage for productivity, internal communication, and the employee experience.
4. Use Teams to uplevel your idea management strategy
Giving employees a voice is essential to engagement and workplace innovation, but getting them to contribute their ideas isn’t always easy. A Teams integration can help intranets with idea management capabilities gather even more innovative ideas and ensure that every employee is heard.
The purpose behind this is to make the process as frictionless as possible by allowing employees to contribute their suggestions using a convenient, familiar platform. Because desked workers spend so much of their time on Teams, allowing them to seamlessly contribute ideas there, without switching to another app, is a game changer that can increase the number of ideas received by up to 70%.
An idea management integration with Teams supplements your intranet’s ideas portal with a dedicated space for employee ideas within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. This Teams app is customized to match the branding of your intranet and allows employees to share even more ideas as they go about their workdays.
Seven reasons to use Slack and Teams with your intranet
As we’ve covered so far, Slack and Teams integrations are an essential way to share important communications with employees, enhance your intranet, reduce digital workplace friction, and spur innovation.
Here are the most important advantages of using Slack and Teams with your intranet:
- Slack and Teams have high usage rates among employees, so content published there is likely to be seen and attended to quickly.
- These applications are native to users’ operating systems and tap into their notifications. If employees have notifications turned on for Slack or Teams (and most do), comms from your intranet will receive instant attention.
- The ability to publish to specific channels on Teams or Slack allows for effective audience segmentation, so that you can reach specific sections of your workforce without distracting others.
- Many employees have Slack or Teams installed on their mobile devices. This means communications will reach them on the go, and with the Teams integration, users will have access to your intranet right in the Teams app on their phones.
- Enabling real-time Teams and Slack content on your intranet gives employees a distraction-free, high-level view of key discussions and updates.
- Embedding your intranet in Teams means putting essential content at employees’ fingertips while increasing intranet engagement, adoption, and usage.
- Integrating your intranet’s idea management capabilities with Teams makes employees more likely to contribute ideas and improves transparency throughout the employee listening process.
Unlocking the full potential of communication apps
Slack and Teams have become integral to our workplaces and are some of the most frequently used apps among employees. They’ve transformed communication and aided productivity for organizations, especially those with remote or dispersed employees.
They’re also powerful tools that boost the power of a multichannel employee experience platform, whether it’s by helping to communicate with employees more effectively, streamline experiences, or improve efficiency. If your organization uses Slack or Teams, don’t miss out on the potential of these integrations.
