What is Town hall?
A company-wide meeting where leadership addresses all employees at once, takes questions and records who was briefed, often run online or hybrid.
What is Town hall (all-hands meeting)?
A town hall, or all-hands, is the meeting where leadership speaks to the whole organisation: results, strategy, changes and answers to employee questions. Online town halls replace the packed conference room with a live broadcast, which suits distributed and multi-branch organisations where gathering everyone physically is impractical.
The online format adds something the room never had: a record. Registration shows who was invited, attendance shows who actually joined, and questions can be collected in writing. For regulated industries, that attendance record is not a nicety; it is evidence that staff were briefed.
Why it matters
Town halls are where culture and direction are set, and their failure mode is silence: employees who feel uninformed fill the gap with rumour. For banks, telcos and multi-branch businesses, a verifiable record of who attended a compliance or policy briefing can also be a regulatory requirement, not just good practice.
How it works in Medivot
Enterprise Medivot workspaces run restricted webinars built for internal town halls: registration limited to the company's verified email domains, confirmation by six-digit email code, and per-person attendance recorded, which gives HR and compliance teams the briefing evidence they need. The live session runs on Medivot Stream with Q&A for employee questions.
Frequently asked questions
How often should a company hold town halls?
Monthly or quarterly works for most organisations, plus extraordinary sessions when big changes land. Consistency matters more than frequency: a town hall people can rely on beats ambitious schedules that slip.
How do you make a virtual town hall interactive?
Collect questions in advance and live, use polls to pulse-check the room, and have leaders answer unscripted questions visibly. The moment employees believe questions are filtered, the format loses its purpose.
Guides and resources
- Running Internal Town Halls for Banks and Telcos
- Hybrid Events: How to Run an In-Person Event with a Live Online Audience
- All glossary terms
- Pricing