Rewiring how we work

We’re starting to place a big emphasis on our working culture going forward. We’ve had some initiatives over the past year or two, but we’ve started to realize that things have slowly regressed.

Remote work has presented more challenges over the years. And we feel that it’s incredibly important to address those challenges head on from time to time.

One simple but silly thing we’ve realized is that we have way too many Slack channels. For a relatively small company, I feel like we have 5 slack channels for every person. This has caused people to work in silos. We’ve got to open the lines of communication so everyone is aware of what is going on.

Another issue is that we’ve stopped calling each other and have just taken to sending large emails and slack messages. While Slack and email are great for simple communications, you do not get close to the same level of brainstorming and we need to be talking to each other more.

These are all simple and seem silly, but if unaddressed, can really impact performance at a company so one of our initiatives in Q4 is to reset the remote working culture.