Company culture
You assumed that the first virtual happy hour you ever attended would be your last. We were all surely headed back to the office next week. Or month, or year.There was an expiration date on those…
What’s the difference between a $10k recognition platform and the teammate who starts every standup with, “Great news, we’re still employed!”?It’s that the teammate is more likely to be worth the…
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” The famous quote reminds us that all of our plans and programs ultimately collapse without supporting values and habits. The same is true when discussing pure…
This past summer, we surveyed 279 administrators at 232 organizations. More than 100 respondents mentioned collaboration and mutual support as key to their company cultures.
Get your 10k steps in? Whether it’s a personal goal or a company challenge, you should feel proud. But employee retention and a strong company culture hinge on a different kind of wellness.
You’ve been checking the oven every two minutes to see if dinner’s ready, but you forgot to turn the oven on. This is a lot like attempting to improve engagement with surveys instead of looking at…
Old habits die hard, as the saying goes. There are plenty, from pizza parties to afternoon brain dumps, that make going remote-first sound tough. How do we preserve retention, engagement, and…
Your best performers are avoiding the 3 pm icebreaker session because they fear it will ultimately hurt their performance. The employee who’s in bed halfway across the globe at that time feels left…
Isolation means objectively being alone or set apart from others. Loneliness is a feeling we can have when we’re involuntarily or unduly isolated.
Ideas sorted by how much time and budget they take — from five-second Slack shoutouts to bigger, planned moments — so you can actually use this list instead of just bookmarking it.
Unlimited recognition points sound generous, but they quietly kill the habit they're meant to build. Here's why daily limits work better — and what that looks like in practice.
The unglamorous work is what we really want credit for. When people notice that, from peers to managers, that’s when we start to trust our surroundings. But remote engineers probably don’t want you…