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Low Tech
- Highlight interviewees and hires with bright lanyards
- Bring back the water cooler by:
- Allow only mug-sized coffee thermoses and water bottles
- Move More or Ergomo
- It’s all about the small things with tremendous impact. We don’t get enough daylight in Vancouver, so I would wait until everyone was gone and secretly pull up all the curtains. It makes a yuge difference.
High Tech
Communication beats notifications. Ergo, food and face time > Slack.
- Physical Luxafor light or Saent focus buttom
- Pomodus Slack integration: communicate when you are busy/free with your Slack status, and turn on/off notifications.
- Ritual’s piggyback
- (Working from home) Houseparty’s video chat — a digital water cooler.
- Super Smash brothers (Everyone loves a game of Smash Bros).
Slack
- Donut bot — but everyone meets same day, same time, same place
- Internal vs. External communication rules
- Same floors: face-to-face
- Company updates: analogue posters
- Department updates: analogue posters
The remote Culture Tech Stack
- Houseparty drop-in video chat — just like the office water cooler, but digital!
- Donut bot
- Pomodus Slack integration (on Product Hunt)