| Hey thanks for the feedback! So, when I was first starting out, even at an “in office” company, it took time to get close to my coworkers. I saw this problem with really any new employee. It took me months to figure out my boss also liked “it’s always sunny in Philadelphia” and basketball, and rap etc. If I had known this from day 1, then I would have connected with him more from day 1. That would have taken out anxiety or the discomfort of asking difficult questions. For him he would have subconsciously taken more time to make sure I had everything I needed. No matter what we say, we always help people more when we like them. ^ now imagine all that in a remote environment. Usually takes much longer to fit in. In my new fully remote company it took 6months- a year to settle in. Why not just cut out all the leg work of discovery? If someone around me at work likes FIFA as much as I do, then let’s chat about it. It speeds up the social connection and makes work more fun cuz you would genuinely have more friends there. Also, a big thing about who uses it and who doesn’t. As normal you will always have the early adopters in the company, the new people and the HR people that will use it. But when the results are seen more often, managers will ask their teams to use it. A profile takes less than 3 min to create. So from that point on you will get connections via your most loved topics weekly. (I would love to log in on Monday and know the new guy we just hired loves playing fifa). That will make people come back and grow the network. The network effect within the company should be great enough to get more people into it and using it. Btw I really do love your feedback. We have the LLC, the mvp etc etc. And actively talking to HR execs. So questions like these are great. |
What actually worries me is the presence of HR, who from what they will see in this sort of social I am sure will come up with totally wrong ideas about employees.
To work, social features must be kept to a minimum, with no "like" and "share" buttons. Otherwise the employee who puts the wrong like will pay for it sooner or later.
See LinkedIn. Initially it was a decent social, where you found colleagues, set up interviews and read news. LinkedIn is where I found my current job here, which I like very much. Now it suffers from the same things as facebook, people who have no idea what they write, post, share, with disastrous results. It's a complete shithole full of "head hunters" and useless post about "how to grow the company" or "how to work smart" and a lot of "life changing" idea that are just trash or copypasta.