Hi everyone 👋 New blog post alert! It’s a list of tools we believe are essential to make the most of the hybrid work model. Communication tools, project management tools, hybrid office scheduling tools… What is a tool you can no longer imagine working without? (No pressure to reply with Officely 👀)

My team uses Loom a lot. With Loom, you can record your camera, microphone, and desktop simultaneously, making tutorials super easy.

Happy Thursday everyone ✨ I hope you’re well! We have a new blog post on a subject we are really passionate about: the four day work week 🤩 If you’ve been thinking about trying out a four day work week, here is our feedback, 10 months on. Among many benefits, we’ve seen an increase in productivity, creativity and general happiness across the business. What are your thoughts on the four day work week? If anyone would like to talk about how to implement it, I’d be happy to share more 🤗

Hi there! I am wondering if there will ever be an option to change the icon of an office. To capture "working remotely" we have added a "working remotely office" and people join there - but because the icon is automatically a building, it's a bit misleading

Any advice is welcome, thanks!

Hey everyone! I came across this article about desk-bombing this morning while scrolling on LinkedIn. In our office we came up with a system: “If I have headphones on, Slack me first” - We’re testing it out and we’ll keep you posted! What are your thoughts on the subject of desk bombers?

Hey everyone! We’re launching “Pet Show Thursdays”, a weekly dedicated thread where you can show off your cute companion(s). Whether you’re in the office or at home, you can reply to this thread with a picture of your furry colleague 😻:

Happy Halloween everyone 🎃 Have you planned any spooky activities for your colleagues today? Transforming the office into a giant spider web? Or hosting a virtual Halloween party for those working from home? Here’s an article you might find useful if you are doing last minute Halloween celebration 👻

Hi all! I am looking for some tips on how to make remote employees feel included 🤗 If you have teammates working mostly remotely I would be super interested to know about your experience on the matter and what you do to include them, here is what I found so far: • Scheduling regular informal team meetings, so it’s not always all work no play. • Making sure your remote teammates have a dedicated workspace at home, providing them with a home office setup, and checking with them if it needs to be revamped after a while. • Checking on your teammates to make sure they unplug from work, you can plan a coffee break call, or make sure to tell them to log off when the working day is over Have any of you found the above useful, or is there anything else you do?

Hey everyone! Happy Hump Day! The Hybrid Heroes community is a place to connect with one another and learn from each other 🤝 For this reason, I am launching the Officely Connect Program! Who is this program for? • Anyone looking for advice regarding office best practices, hybrid working and employee wellbeing • Anyone who would like to share their wisdom and support others Let’s help each other out, if you would like to take part, please DM me and I will introduce you!

Hey everyone! I hope you had a good start of the week 🤗 We have a new blog article about the importance of building an Internal Communications Strategy. Did you know over 63% of employees cite poor communication as a reason for quitting their place of work? So, how do you make everyone feel included and have access to information when your team is divided between home and the office? Here are some helpful tips to build an effective Internal Comms Strategy: • Define the goal for your strategy • Find tools that work for you • Make decisions based on who is in the office and when • Beware of micro-managing • Be open to feedback

Hi everyone, I hope your day is going well! I came across this webinar happening on 23/11 and I thought it would be worth sharing here! Here are the areas that will be covered during this event: • The key pillars that make people feel successful • Eight behaviours and principles that are essential to nurturing people success • Tactics for incorporating these insights into your people strategy

Hi everyone and Happy Tuesday! 👋 I wanted to share with you this helpful article with tips on how to build a positive company culture when working hybrid or remotely. Here are some of the tips in this article that I find interesting: • Define the culture and communicate it. • Make sure everyone understands they are an important part of the company as a whole. • Create a thorough onboarding process for new joiners to make everyone feel included. • Prioritize wellness, ask everyone regularly how they are doing and if there is anything they need help with. Is there something you would add to the list that your company has successfully implemented?

Hi everybody, Happy Hump Day! Today is International Day for Tolerance, it’s a day to celebrate open-mindedness and listening. This is a great opportunity for us to think back and recall the last time we had a different perspective from one of our colleagues 🤗 One of Officely’s key values is to be people-first. How do you uphold tolerance and empathy in your workplace?

Hey everyone, Happy Friday! To keep in the festive spirits, I wanted to share some ideas for your office’s Christmas party 🎉 I am in charge of our party and I made the mistake of watching Office Christmas Party, which has given me lots and lots of bad ideas… Luckily, I also did some research and found this interesting article on how to organise an Office Christmas Party, I hope it can help you too!

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having a great day! Ahead of the holidays, many of us hybrid workers will be going away during the Christmas period, perhaps to places with different time zones which is why I wanted to share this article on best practices for working across time zones 🤗

We’ve been doing virtual summer and holidays parties since Covid and our main challenge has been coming up with new virtual ideas that are engaging, that work for everyone, and is flexible for folks in different time zones. To solve this issue, for our virtual holiday party this year, we decided to celebrate over a three week period. Week 1 our employees have two events to choose from (an online Mixology class or a Thai cooking class). Week 2 is focused on Health & Fun and people can choose one event (Learning how to stretch at your desk or a tote bag painting class) and Week 3 is all about celebrating all our hard work over the last year with multiple events taking place (virtual team lunches, a company wide trivia event, and a final cheers and celebration message from our Leadership team). So for us, having multiple events for employees to choose from will allow more people to attend at least one of them. It also let us come up with multiple virtual ideas, rather than stressing over finding one that works for everyone.

If yes, what have you planned so far? 🤩🎄

Here’s an article listing great office playlists you can find on Spotify 🎉 🎶 Do you have a preferred playlist or did you make your own? You can share them here!

Hey everyone, I hope you are having a great start of your week! Finding presents for Secret Santa can be tricky, so here is an article with a few examples of gifts for co-workers that everyone will love 🎅❤️ Always remember, it’s the thought that counts! 🙏

Hello! Hope everyone is having a fab week. I'd love to invite you all to join us on Tuesday for a Webinar where we'll talk about 'How to encourage employees back into the office' Can't wait to see your lovely faces there 🤗 Here is the link to join!

Hey everyone, I hope you are having a great start to the week! I wanted to share our new blog article with you. Are you familiar with the term proximity bias? It’s one of the biggest challenges hybrid workplaces face. In a hybrid office, it presents itself as managers and teammates favoring those they are physically closer to. Here’s how your business can prevent this from happening: • Be proactive about checking in • Prioritize remote-first communication • Make it easy for employees to see each other • Build and stick to performance reviews • Define your hybrid working policy What are your thoughts on proximity bias, have you seen it happen? To find out more, click on the link!

Hey everyone! I hope you’re having a great Tuesday 🤩 How many of you agree with the following statement: “Without the face-to-face environment of an office, proper communication can slip” ? Maintaining a healthy company culture can be quite challenging for hybrid businesses, which makes it important to be able to recognise signs of issues as early as employee onboarding. This article I came across can help you identify potential problems in your hybrid company culture! Feel free to share your experience on any challenges you faced since becoming hybrid businesses and how you overcame them 💪

hey there, i've more of a general question and am wondering if anyone has gone through a similar process to calculate this before. we're looking at aligning on our annual leave policies across all locations to equalise our benefits and offering, however with varied public holidays it gets very confusing (next year the UK have 9, Madrid have 15!). we have decided against unlimited holiday as through reviewing our teams approach to annual leave, they need more structure for taking holiday and are after more flexibility. has anyone offered leave that is inclusive of public holidays to multiple locations within their company before, and if so, can i ask how you approached it? thanks!

Hey everyone, I hope you had a lovely break 🤗 I wanted to share with you our newest article on how to prevent employee burnout in a hybrid team as it’s important to check in with your colleagues and employees to make sure they aren’t ending the year on the brink of burning out. Here are some things you can do: • Encourage regular breaks, away from desks • Prioritize your work culture • Promote work-life balance • Monitor Workloads

Hey everyone, I hope you had a lovely break 🤗 I wanted to share with you our newest article on how to prevent employee burnout in a hybrid team as it’s important to check in with your colleagues and employees to make sure they aren’t ending the year on the brink of burning out. Here are some things you can do: • Encourage regular breaks, away from desks • Prioritize your work culture • Promote work-life balance • Monitor Workloads

Hey everyone, Happy Monday! Which of these factors do you think contributes the most to employee happiness?

📣 New Blog Post 📣 Hi everyone, I hope you had a great start of the week! Hands up if you’ve told yourself on a Sunday night that you’ll go into the office more this week… only to get to Friday and realise you’ve worked from home all week. 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️ If businesses want to increase their office attendance, they need to make going into the office more appealing than staying at home, would you agree? So here are our tried and tested tips for increasing office attendance.

Hey <!channel> I hope you’re having a great week so far! We are trying to find out what conversations our members value the most on this Slack Community. Please let me know in the poll below what you would like to see most on this group 🤗