Anyone finding great ways of bringing/enticing people back to offices if your office is open? Curious to hear whats working and engaging your employees!

Anyone put together tips + tricks for employees who return to working in office? People coming from home with peace and quiet to an office with others are definitely going to get shock and I also can't have them booking conference rooms for everything. Curious if anyone has put something together to help their teams?

Can anyone recommend a good online training provider? I am looking for 'dealing with difficult people courses' and 'emotional intelligence courses'.... Thanks

Udemy!

Does anyone have a resource with a comparison of top tech company’s hybrid approach and policies by any chance?

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Nicole, I recently joined Officely as Marketing Lead. We compiled Q1 trends and insights from thousands of hybrid offices and shared the first edition of our quarterly Hybrid Highlights. I’m sure no one’s surprised to see that Thursday is the most popular in-office day! If you’d like to share with your peers, you can do so from our LinkedIn post here. Hope you all have a great long weekend.

Heya! We are having more teams come into the office which is so great! Wondering if anyone has had to tackle the half virtual half in person meeting situation and how that may have been addressed?

Need help introducing hybrid work? We built this customized hybrid policy guide and checklist to get you started. Check it out 👉🏻 https://www.getofficely.com/custom-hybrid-policy?

What do you do for back up support in the event your office/workplace manager(s) are out sick? I am looking to set up some sort of vendor or plan for my team so that if they are out sick for a week, I can have coverage and not try to manage day to day in offices when I am remote + I travel A LOT and not always available.

Slack found that 72% of employees across six countries prefer a hybrid model. But how can you show your employees that returning to the office isn’t a change of scenery? A good way to start is to offer Office Extras to create a welcoming office environment that makes your employees feel supported and appreciated. Check out our latest blog on the most popular Office Extras and how to add them in Officely!

Hi all, we’re kicking off a new program to highlight some of our hybrid work community members every month 🙂 To start us off, I’d like to introduce Christine Ng, Head of Talent and Media at Quantum Motion. Managing hardware tech teams who need to use labs during social distancing was tricky, Christine shared her insights to re-opening Quantum Motion’s offices with us last week. Check it out! 💡Interested in being featured? Send me a message! https://getofficely99841.ac-page.com/christine_ng_interview

Happy Tuesday everyone! 🤗 I’ve been so lucky to work with many of you and hear what an amazing job you're doing managing your workplaces! I thought I'd share my bio here about how we approach hybrid work at Officely 😊 hope you like it. 💡Interested in being featured? Send us a message! https://hello.getofficely.com/community_kristina_semcenko

Excited to share an invitation for you all to join our virtual panel discussion with some exciting members of the hybrid work community! 💡 The office comeback: How to make the most of your office and get your team excited to return You’ve adopted a hybrid work model, but your team is unsure about returning to the office. We all agree ultimatums aren’t productive, so what’s next? Join Officely + Hubble on Tuesday, 7 June for a panel discussion on how to balance flexibility and in-person collaboration. We’ll hear strategies from leading companies, like Thriva Health and SourceBreaker, on how they support their employees and bring teams back into the office organically. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas and a community to continue the discussion with. 📆 Tuesday 7 June, 1-2pm BST 👥 Panelists: • Gabriela Matias, VP of People, Thriva • Adam Dale, CRO, SourceBreaker • Joe Batten, Head of Commercial Ops, Hubble 🎫 Register here: https://hello.getofficely.com/june7_event If you’re not able to attend live, register and we’ll share the recording after the event!

💡 Don’t forget to register for the event before the long weekend (for our UK friends!) https://hello.getofficely.com/june7_event

Less than 2 hours to go, make sure you book yourself in and join the talk to get some tips and tricks on how you can help employees come back to the office! https://hello.getofficely.com/june7_event

We’re starting in 5 minutes here! https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86369022145

Exciting news! :fire: We're looking for an office manager to join us as a community associate to help us keep our customers happy and build hybrid heroes into the #1 community for office managers! What's a community associate? Your #1 priority will be to ensure our customers are super happy and to help them get the most out of Officely 🤩 You will get plenty of opportunities to be part of different projects, write help articles and be the friendly face of the company! And most excitingly, you'll own hybrid heroes 🦸 Serving all you lovely lot as well as answering questions, organising events and generally making it a great community to be a part of. Why are we hiring an ex-office manager? Because who better to build a community for office managers than an office manager! If you or anyone you know would be interested in joining the team, pls send a DM to me

Hi all! For any US smaller (under 100) start up type companies - I'm trying to make sure our benefit offering is competitive. If you offer a WFH stipend for team members, I'd be very grateful if you could share the highlights of your policy! (ie $X/month or $X/annual or you can submit % of internet, one time stipend for office furniture purchase, etc). Thanks in advance and TGIF!

Missed our event last week? 💡 You can view and share the recording here: https://hello.getofficely.com/june7_event

Check out our latest member feature! Meet @Melanie Munroe Wattpad’s amazing Office Manager here DM me if you’d like to be featured! We’d love to meet you 🙂

Hey everyone, hope you're having a great Thursday! Thought that you might find this blog here helpful in encouraging employees back into the office, we have some tips and tricks that you could use! 🤩 Do you have anything to add to the list? Would be great to hear your own tips that help you boost attendance!

Hey everyone, I was wondering if you guys are offering the option to make use of a car sharing company on the companies behalf? And what policy do you have for this?

Hey everyone 👋 Happy Hump Day! We have a new blog about hybrid work, feel free to read it here. What’s your favourite thing about hybrid work? Personally I feel more in control of finding a good work-life balance, I wouldn’t want it any other way! Let’s discuss 🤗

Definitely balance about work-life and the time saving in commuting 🙌.

Being able to spend more time at home with my daughter is definitely my highlight!

I find I'm not 100% consistent in where I work best, sometimes it's in the office and sometimes it's at home! So being able to choose where I work makes a huge difference to my productivity (and balances out with work/life too) ☺️

I love that head-down work can be performed away from colleagues (who can be distractions) but for team brainstorming and general camaraderie, the office is there as an option for us.

I love going into the office but I definitely get less done when I am in. We have the option for people to do whatever they want and I choose to come in twice a week.

Hey everyone 👋 How’s your day going? As you may have noticed I’ve recently joined to help build this community and I wanted to share my vision of what I hope it will become. We want Hybrid Heroes to be the place you come to learn and share tips and tricks about how to make hybrid work, work. We’ve all been thrown into this huge change in how our companies fundamentally operate. We’re expected to know how to encourage office attendance, create a vibrant hybrid culture and make everyone feel included, even if they are working from home. In reality, we are all learning how to operate this system as we go. We want to be here to help you connect with other people facing the same challenges and help each other overcome them 🚀 As part of this vision, moving forward, we will be introducing: • Tips and tricks on Hybrid Working • Local channels for helpful Office Management tips • Discussions on employee wellbeing and office best practices • A mentoring program for those who recently started a position in Office Management (please let me know if you’d like to be a mentee or mentor) • Anonymous questions (privately DM me with all those questions you don’t want to ask publicly and I will post them on your behalf) • Officely feature demos, to give you an even better Officely experience But ultimately this community is for you, so if you have any other ideas, feel free to let me know 🤗

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 👀)