Over one year into the pandemic, many employees continue to find themselves working remotely. However, most workers want to continue working remotely full-time, and remote working will not end with the pandemic. This creates issues for managers: how do you increase employee engagement, develop company culture, or evaluate performance when everyone is remote? Happy hours…
Moneyhub, a UK-based financial management platform was doubling the size of its workforce from 20 to 40 employees when pandemic restrictions hit. Luckily, they were already well-equipped to start working remotely. They had already built in lots of flexibility for their team members to work from home, and they were using messaging apps like Slack,…
When we’re all working remotely, we start to miss the little bits of connection – water cooler conversation, grabbing a coffee with a colleague. We are social animals! And socializing is crucial for our own mental health as well as the health of the organization. We’ve missed all of it, from venting our frustrations or using…
Even though we’re starting to host cocktail parties or house parties for the first time in a year and unmask at bars, virtual happy hours are probably here to stay. As schools, shops, restaurants, and other public spaces start to open up, the future of work looks like it’s going to be a hybrid model…
Just because you’re physically far away from your coworkers doesn’t mean you can’t have close working relationships. Better communications technology means that we can build teams and organizations with employees who live all over the country or even the world. Don’t miss out on all the great learning opportunities that having different teams affords! Virtual…