Helping Coworkers Stay Connected

Rose Holland

April 20,2020 at 4:39PM UTC

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What are some creative ways you are helping coworkers stay connected? Please share details - what type of programs you are using and how you are utilizing it. We are trying to figure out ways to get our 130+ staff to connect while most of us are teleworking.

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Lady PeleApril 20,2020 at 5:39PM UTC
I'm in a 120-person company, with a parent company of about 4,000. All of our meetings are either in Microsoft Teams or Zoom. There's a Friday afternoon touch-base with our president, who shares business news and opens it to Q & A. As I recently posted in another thread, they also sent a tin of cookies to every employee as a thank you for working remotely and staying on top of everything during this difficult time. We also created a Funny Teams channel for anything that could brighten someone's day.
Rose HollandApril 20,2020 at 6:06PM UTC
Love these. We are slowly getting MS teams. The challenge is very few currently have cameras and too many are reluctant to use their personal devices for work.
Melissa NicholsonApril 20,2020 at 10:44PM UTC
That is a real challenge. Can your management team do a Zoom 101. We share a lot of great remote work resources to help folks navigate this in our COVID working parents's survival guide: workmuse.com/workfromhome -- including Zoom tutorials and tools and tricks from remote-only companies.
Rose HollandApril 20,2020 at 11:40PM UTC
I work for the government and they have banned the use of zoom due to security issues.
Melissa NicholsonApril 21,2020 at 5:58PM UTC
Rose, the other thing to consider is that A LOT Of people are suffering Zoom fatigue (or video conferencing fatigue). Here is a blog from CEOs of remote only companies that may be of help: https://meetedgar.com/blog/what-do-you-need-in-your-work-from-home-survival-kit/
Melissa NicholsonApril 20,2020 at 10:47PM UTC
Some remote only companies do M, W, F remote lunch room for non-work related bonding. Not every meeting and interaction needs to be on Zoom. There can be a lot of fatigue with back-to-back meetings with little time for people to actually complete their work. Check out our COVID working parents survival guide bc it has best practices and tools to use from remote only founders as well as boundary-setting to keep folks engaged and not burned out: workmuse.com/workfromhome