This data from South Africa. This snapshot gives a glimpse into how traditional in-person teams are struggling with remote work. First up is the discovery that email is terrible for communication...
Why is the story feature important
Stories are a very powerful digital communication medium! In all my years of digital communication, nothing has come close to creating digital intimacy and connection as has Stories. When Snapchat...
How to spot a badly designed remote workplace
People are now sharing their experiences of what it’s like to work remotely after being forced to start doing so at very short notice, with no time prepare: For example: “I don’t miss going to the...
More on decommissioning the office as communication app
To make remote work you have to decommission the office as the communication app. This from Slack Rewiring how we work: building a new employee experience for a digital-first world: “Going to work...
Understanding your teams remote work challenges
This from the recent KPMG report Covid-19 and the American worker. “40% say they were left to navigate the changes with inadequate resources.” Wow. Most commonly cited challenges from transitioning...
Managing hybrid teams (co-located + remote the hardest of all
The main reason for this is that you end up with two communication apps which fragments your communication. The co-located team will use the office as their communication app and the remote team...
Remote work mistake: Trying to replicate the in-office experience online
Below is the observation of an executive about his company’s remote work experience. (From this you can see difficulties in attempting synchronous working - remotely.) “It wasn’t that people weren’t...
For successful remote work you have to decommission the office as communication app
When working in-office the office becomes the communication app of choice. Walking over to someone and tapping them on the shoulder to ask a question. The water cooler chat. The impromptu meeting....
Remote Work: Text Communication
When in-person, communication is verbal and visual. However when working remotely you need to learn to use ALL forms of digital communication available in order to convey your thoughts and ideas....
Remote Work: Endless video meetings lead to fatigue
In this research from Microsoft the findings are clear. Video meetings lead to fatigue and that fatigue begins to set in at the 30 to 40min mark. As Matt Mullenweg recently shared in his remote work...
Remote/Co-located Meetings
There is one rule when it comes to these hybrid meetings that you simply must live by: 🚩If ONE person has to join the meeting via a video call EVERYONE should join the meeting on a video call, even...
Remote work tip: Go email-less internally
Email is a TERRIBLE communication and collaboration medium! We have been email-less internally for a number of years. So ALL internal communication happens either on our Trello boards, in Workplace...