Is local chat within the local network effective if there is WhatsApp?

Question

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There is a kindergarten with about 50 employees. The boss asks me to set up a chat between employees' computers, but there is one big problem. Some employees sometimes do not turn on their PCs in a day. Will local chat within the company's local network be effective if WhatsApp is available? Plus, there is a web version.

Answer 1

chat between employee computers

Well, then solve the problem. And you can evaluate the effectiveness later.
Well, let's turn it on. But think, if they do not include it, then they simply do not need it in their work.
Kindergarten is not such a place for irresponsibility. Today, a corporate chat for local users, tomorrow - limited access to the Internet with cutting off everything and everyone. Where will your whatsapp be?
If the goal is "have a chat to be", then you can evaluate the effectiveness of this as a value close to zero.
And if the task is to use a corporate chat in order to control correspondence, increase the convenience of exchanging documents, provide information to users (whoever did not read the message in "ICQ" is a fool himself, the user will no longer excuse himself that there was no Internet / the phone was dead) and so on , then of course, here it will be 100% effective.
Estimate even the speed of typing on the keyboard and on the smartphone.

Answer 2

The web version does not work without a smartphone. So all employees must have a smartphone with a WhatsApp connected to the Internet.
In general, a local chat makes sense in two cases:
1) There is no Internet, or interruptions are likely, and the connection is critical
2) Super secrecy is important
I understand that this is not about you. So the answer is no, it doesn't work.