[Business Technology](https://telxpress.com/insights/category/business-technology/) # Unwrap the Gift of Better Collaboration: Rolling Out Unified Communications This Holiday Season Creative ways to launch a unified communications platform as a holiday gift to your team, and what employees gain in flexibility, collaboration and productivity. By **Telxpress Team** Published January 15, 2025 · Updated October 9, 2026 · 2 min read The holiday season is a time for giving, connecting and showing appreciation. Gift cards and bonuses are always welcome, but there is also something you can give a team that changes the way they work every day: a unified communications (UC) platform. Here is how to roll it out well and what employees gain. ## How do you launch UC as a gift? - **Hold a launch party.** Introduce the system with live demos, hands-on training and a question session so people leave excited rather than confused. - **Personalize it.** Configure department-specific tools and personal profiles so the platform fits each team's work from day one. - **Make training festive.** Teach the features through holiday tasks: creating a virtual background for video calls, recording an out-of-office greeting, setting up a team chat for the party planning. - **Recognize people through it.** Use group chats and video calls to share holiday messages and thank people publicly. ## What do employees gain? ### Work-life balance Remote access, mobile apps and call forwarding let people work efficiently from anywhere, which matters most when the holidays pull them between family and deadlines. ### Simpler collaboration Chat, video, file sharing and task tracking in one place remove the frustration of juggling tools, so people focus on results. ### Higher productivity Voicemail transcription, team messaging and presence status remove the delays of waiting for a callback or an email. People respond faster and manage their time better. ### A future-ready workplace Modern tools signal that the business invests in its people and is ready for how work is changing. ## What is the return? UC consolidates several services into one subscription, reduces operating cost and raises efficiency and satisfaction. Over a year those compound into a healthier bottom line and a team that stays. ## Where this fits today Telxpress installs and supports unified communications through the [phone systems and UCaaS service](https://telxpress.com/solutions/business-technology/phone-systems/), designs the [network](https://telxpress.com/solutions/business-technology/networking/) and [meeting rooms](https://telxpress.com/solutions/business-technology/audio-visual/) around it, and trains your team as part of the rollout. [Book a consultation](https://telxpress.com/book/) to plan a quiet-season launch. Happy holidays and happy communicating. - legacy - unified-communications - holidays - rollout ## Questions this article answers **Is the holiday period really a good time to change the phone system?** For many businesses, yes, because call volume dips and staff have a little slack for training. Avoid retail peaks and year-end close for finance teams. The number port is the one fixed event; we schedule it for a quiet day and keep the old system reachable until everyone is comfortable. **How do we get employees to actually use the new tools?** Make the launch an event, train in short role-specific sessions rather than one long one, and nominate a champion in each department who learns first and helps others. Then retire the old tools on a date. Adoption follows when the new platform is the easiest way to do the job, not an optional extra. **What does a unified communications rollout cost compared with gifts and bonuses?** They are not substitutes, and we would not frame UC as a replacement for a bonus. The honest comparison is against what you already pay for separate phone, meeting and messaging tools plus the time lost switching between them. The consolidation alone often covers the cost of the platform. Keep reading ## Related articles [Business Technology](https://telxpress.com/insights/category/business-technology/) ### [Boost Your VoIP Calls: Top Tips for Crystal Clear Communication](https://telxpress.com/insights/boost-your-voip-calls-top-tips-for-crystal-clear-communication/) The steps we check on a site visit when business calls sound choppy or delayed, in order, from bandwidth and QoS to hardware, failover and codecs. 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