hello! This is Meredith in NYC

Hi! Erin from Lattice in SF

Byron Williams - Localist Corp. - DC

Britt from SoulCycle in NYC

Fatma New York

Katie in Vancouver, BC!

Jenna - Hopper - Montreal

Amber, Pearl Buck Center, Eugene, OR

Greg kuchcik - San Diego, CA

Megan in Vancouver

This is Kari in Portland, OR.

Zoe from Elastic Path - Toronto

Meaghan Williams - HubSpot - Boston

Jen, VA in SLC, Utah

Hi! Sarah from Pluralsight in Utah

Lisa, NHA in Ohio

Hello! This is Julie from OXD in Vancouver

Claudia / Wizeline / México

Ali - Palo Alto, CA

Kevin from LiveBetter, in New Paltz, NY

Hi from RealSelf in Seattle, this is Emily.

Consistent and meaningful engagement

quantifying productivity in-house vs remote

Equity/inclusion between in-office and remote team members

L Brown, CT

Inclusion

onboarding and engagement

Engagement / feeling a part of HQ

My company is anti- platform. Management does not want to invest in slack or any such program, and yet want to create a stronger culture with our distributed workforce.

Biggest challenge: how to effectively include remote employees in team events/cultural events when on a dispersed/hybrid team

biggest challenge: curating a connection with a larger team.

Building perks that work across locations and don’t break the bank.

Culture is non-cohesive

How to get remote employees to actually want to come into work from time to time.

I’m at Thinkful and we are a remote-first company with an HQ in Brooklyn.

Current remote employee and we have 30% of our workforce in the US that is remote

Have worked remotely for 4 years and about half of our team does as well

key themes : productivity, communication, diversity and inclusion, connectiona nd community

connection

Feeling of connection and offering similar or comparable learning and engaging opportunities for remote workers. Not feeling like they are forgotten or ignored.

We are looking at the logistics and see if it's something that can be done.

Historically, we have not been very open to being remote but we recently hired a remote CTO and his vision is to transition the majority of the team to remote

How do you increase engagement

Biggest challenge is getting our remote workers to feel like they are an equal part of the team as our office workers - also getting them to feel like they are adequately trained and supported

Thank you all for sharing!

We are sorting out key themes and we will have our speakers touch on few of them

We are a completely distributed organization in 20 different countries. What programs have you implemented that you have seen be successful? What does your onboading plan look like? Thank you!

Hi Everyone! If you’re just joining please share a bit about you (name, where you’re joining from, and what you do!) and any challenges you face around remote work

Thank you! What's the name of the Chinese study on the call center that Katie shared?

What costs increase when moving an in-office worker to a remote worker?

Here is the stufy Katie spoek about: https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/a-2-year-stanford-study-shows-astonishing-productivity-boost-of-working-from-home.html

spoke *

Hello! Alexis from UCLA Career Center here. Challenge with allowing partial remote work for interns is accountability - How do I know they worked on what they said? Also, how to structure boundaries - don't want them feeling like they need to reply on Slack when not working.

You mention working from home can keep retention rates high…at our organization, any remote employees who have decided to leave have mentioned the disconnect from our HQ population…besides remembering to be inclusive, how can we be successful in retaining remote top talent?

Great question Rachel! sharing data about productivity and other companies that are fully remote and use them as a good example with your leadership team.

also if remote work comes up as a theme in employees survey, it could be a good argument to use with leadership.

hi! welcome

Thank you Fatima for sharing the link to Katie's data!

Yes!!

OKRs = Objectives & Key Results (I imagine we have a distributed, diverse group joining in and not everyone is familiar.)

I gotchu.

Thank you Sarah

Can Katie repeat that?

Stellar point Katie.

Awesome point, Katie!

Hi Sonia! Katie is the VP of Engineering at Buffer

yes Sonia mostly

But Bianca, Jocelyn, and Latoya are HR leaders

Would love to hear more about the cultural fit interview

“Cope with Chaos” ! Love that quote, Katie!

Will a recording of this be available afterwards? Have to step away for a call I couldn't get out of, and don't want to miss!

Yes! A recording will be shared.

Great!

Brilliant Bianca! Strange to see re-framing this as a competitive advantage is still required in 2019—you’re spot on.

How do you onboard remote folks most successfully?

we will talk about creating connections

Hello Everyone,I’m Ranada Samuel a Recruiter that resides in South Carolina. I currently recruit in the Hospitality space, but have recruited in other industries in the past. I’ve worked remotely for the past 7yr and LOVE IT!https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranadaharrison/ Very often I have to connect with candidates via phone outside of traditional business hours, because they don’t want their current employer to know they are exploring the market.

We do our onboarding via webex. We try to bring all employess together at least twice a year to have some bonding with our total employee population.

tools: SlackZoomInVisionGitHubTrelloDashlane:

If you have any fun team offsite ideas to share please do so! We just had a 4 day, whole company retreat out in the desert last weekend!

We used the Go Game last year and it was a nice fun experience

For us, we gave everyone the option to have the room but asked who would be willing to share if needed.

We use a bot called donut to organize virtual coffees between groups!

comm tools: slack, zoom. Githib. Donut

Github *

We use Donut at Buffer, too

That’s helpful to highlight! Not every solution works every where!

have any of you engaged any tools to help eliminate the need for a ton of meetings to help with scheduling over different time zones?

*Sharing with all attendees: We work in a 24/7 support call center with half of our Associates working remote. We do not have the option to get everyone together all at once. What are some tips to help keep these employees engaged and connected?

@Linsey: Do you have any internal social media platforms to sharing recordings and/or updates so anyone who misses can get a glimpse? Change times so everyone gets an opportunity and everyone will miss out

What’s distracting Bianca???

My dog barked :)

My dog barked

“)

hahahhaha

It’s okay, Bianca. I’m bored, too

:(

not at all

Thanks Michele, glad you’re finding it valuable!

Thank you for the feedback Michele, we are happy to have you in the community

We love OWL!

Sarah, it depends on companies, I would suggest to ask the remote employees what they would liek to see and have and make the decision according to their feedback and what the company could realistically do

FYI Latoya’s video is not showing but she’s on the line

Thank you - Yes we use SLACK. Recordings is a great idea, thank you!

Great point Mark!

We have contractors on our team which can be challenging for after hour events since they are not salaried employees

Love the idea of a Halloween photo contests!

I love the Halloween idea too!!!!
Amazing

Do you guys have any links to major studies that can be shared with executives? Something that can help kickoff a conversation

Great Perks Jocerlyn!! That is the way to recruit top talent!!

Can you link to that Gallup study as well, please? Thank you!

I believe this is the study that Meredith mentioned: https://news.gallup.com/businessjournal/206033/america-coming-workplace-home-alone.aspx

Remote : Office Not Required Jason Fried

great book!

Slack notification management, too :) — https://stories.buffer.com/i-turned-slack-off-for-a-week-heres-what-happened-6b6a764febc

We have minimum vacation of 15 days, too

ERGs = Employee Resource Groups

Great advice Bianca!! You're an excellent leader!!

Capital One has very active ERGs across the country. They have virtual chapters and robust online meetings and Intranet resources.

YES Budget is KEY!!

Thank you everyone for joining and contributing to the conversation today! A recording of the webinar will be sent out after the event.

This was SUPER helpful, thank you! Hopping off for another meet. Have a wonderful day everyone!

Thank you for being part of the conversation!

Thank you all for being part of this webinar!

This was so helpful! Thanks, all!!

thank you!!

Thanks all!!

Thank you so much for you r insight and knowledge.

Fantastic - thanks!

Stellar webinar. thanks!

THank you!

Thanks for joining~

Thanks!