Calix Offers Bark Free for US Employees So They Can Help Protect Their Children From Social Media Dangers
August 03 2023 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Following the successful launch of Bark as a
managed service on the Calix broadband platform—galvanizing
broadband service providers to play a critical role in protecting
children in their communities from online dangers—Calix makes the
award-winning social media monitoring app available as a free
employee benefit to all eligible U.S.-based team members
Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) is strengthening its purpose-driven
culture by making Bark social media monitoring a free benefit for
all employees in the United States. With this launch, Calix
enhances its award-winning culture centered on employee well-being
and community impact.
The AI-enabled Bark dashboard monitors children’s text messages,
emails, and over 30 apps and platforms for potential safety
concerns. When digital dangers such as cyberbullying or predation
are detected, the parent or caregiver receives an automatic alert.
This means adults can address issues immediately, without combing
through every online interaction—and children retain their privacy.
Bark social media monitoring works both in the home and when
children are on the go.
Calix first partnered with Bark last year, adding the tool as
its sixth managed service for the Calix Revenue EDGE™ solution on
the Calix broadband platform. Today, an increasing number of Calix
customers (ALLO Communications, Three River Communications,
Tombigbee Fiber, and more) make Bark available to their subscribers
as part of their managed Wi-Fi offerings. By doing so, they’re
transforming their business models while doing good for their
communities. As Bark is fully integrated on the Calix platform,
broadband service providers (BSPs) can launch the offering in just
days.
By scaling this immediate and impactful tool to thousands of
subscribers, Calix customers are giving parents an actionable way
to address the documented harm social media poses to children’s
health.
In the U.S., suicide is now the second leading cause of death
among kids ages 15-24. From 2007 to 2018, suicide rates among kids
ages 10-24 increased almost 60 percent. A summary of a 2018 study
posted by the National Institutes of Health concludes: “Greater
time spent on online social networking promotes self-harm behavior
and suicidal ideation in vulnerable adolescents.” To date, Bark has
detected and addressed 1.4 million self-harm situations among
children in the U.S.
Starting today, all eligible Calix employees across the U.S. can
now use Bark as a free benefit.
“Every day, our BSP customers live their values by transforming
communities one family, school, and business at a time,” said
Michael Weening, president and chief executive officer at Calix.
“Our partnership with these customers is incredibly inspiring and
motivating for our team members. In today’s digital world, children
face challenges their parents sometimes struggle to understand. We
added Bark to our broadband platform because our customers told us
that their top priority was helping their communities. With the
same purpose in mind, we’re committed to safeguarding the health
and wellness of the Calix team. We’re proud to leverage our
partnership with Bark to help every child in our community grow up
safe and protected by offering the Bark app free to our team
members. Helping children and families is the right thing to
do.”
Calix continues to grow its remote workforce. Visit Calix
Careers to learn more.
About Calix
Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX)—Broadband service providers of all
sizes leverage the Calix platform and teams to simplify their
business and excite their subscribers to grow the value of their
business and for their communities for generations. The
democratizing power of the platform and portfolio of managed
services enables them to operate efficiently, acquire subscribers,
and deliver exceptional experiences. Calix is dedicated to driving
continuous improvement in partnership with our growing ecosystem to
support the transformation of our customers and their
communities.
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