Creating those water coolers online
The Hindu
Joining the workforce virtually calls for a whole new onboarding experience, discover corporates
V. Nancy’s early weeks in the corporate world are best described as close to disastrous. Onboarded online, her work-from-home colleagues often greeted her overtures of friendship with frosty silence. Worse still, the lack of in-person contact led her to see offence where none was intended. “I was badgering a colleague with too many questions about my project through Slack (a communication platform) and as he tried explaining things to me over the phone, but I thought his tone was harsh. Lack of face-to-face contact did make some early interactions with colleagues feel more transactional,” says Ms. Nancy, who was hired three months ago by a multinational company in Bengaluru. Ms. Nancy found out the hard way that online conference tools can be an ally in team bonding only when teams have bonded organically around the water cooler.More Related News
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