Roam

Our team has been trialing Roam HQ for the last week. The tool is meant to be a virtual HQ where each person has an office that you can knock on to quickly chat. We also have meeting rooms with video as well as a lounge for all of us to hang out in.

We wanted to try out this new tool as a way to stay better connected and enable more collaboration. Being mostly remote, a lot of us missed the ability to just pop into someone’s office or quickly chat about something. Those interactions have largely gone into Slack messaging which could be counterproductive.

So far, things have been great. We’re chatting more and Slack has calmed down significantly which has helped my anxiety personally. We’ve used the tool to connect and have fun with each other as well.

We’ll see how things go in the next few weeks, but I’m optimistic that this is a tool that can really help us work better together.