Enabling teams to engage and connect in the hybrid workplace

Employee engagement and employee experience have both been essential to a successful and thriving workplace. And, although organizations across the world have experienced the benefits of workplace flexibility and hybrid approaches to where and when we work, spurred on by the pandemic and related lockdowns, this step-change has also exacerbated the importance of getting high levels of employee engagement and a great employee experience nailed down.

UNLEASH sat down with Matthieu Poupard, Alliance and Partnerships Director at Klaxoon to get his take on why employee experience, engagement, and collaboration are so important to our changing worlds of work and how to get the best out of our people.

For many, working from home has liberated them from the stress of the daily commute, others have found the experience isolating and stress-inducing, unable to collaborate or connect effectively with distant colleagues that are spread across locations and timezones. Whilst many companies are now allowing employees to work from home, whilst also maintaining an office presence, it’s clear that these hybrid ways of working have profound implications for the culture, working patterns, collaboration, and overall experience for the whole organization.

If the right workplace conditions are not met, people have shown that they will simply quit… There also seems to be a rising link between the feeling of being burned out and the fact that the tools organizations had before the pandemic might not be enough to address the challenges posed by this new hybrid work setup that we’re operating in.

Matthieu Poupard, Alliances and Partnerships Director, Klaxoon

Providing the tools and means for teams to come together in workshop-type settings remains a key lever for organizations to work through challenges, come up with solutions and make important decisions – the very core of the collaborative processes. So how do we make them as effective as possible?

Organizations will now have to set the right conditions for people to work in a hybrid way. Meaning, being able to work seamlessly with colleagues at the office, at home, or on the go, but also paying greater attention to the rhythm of all – offering a better mix of synchronous and asynchronous touchpoints. 

Matthieu Poupard, Alliances and Partnerships Director, Klaxoon

Klaxoon is working to provide the tools for hybrid, democratic, collaborative, and psychologically safe methods of coming together with our teams. In doing so, they aim to boost a team’s ability to think through problems together and enable creativity, in a way that is sensitive to differing individual contexts and desires for the workplace setting.

Covered in our recent piece, “Succeeding with collaboration in our new hybrid work” Klaxoon’s platform allows for:

• The engagement of various profiles and perspectives around a common and clear target
• The pursuit of continuous improvement and the promotion of iterations through the course of a given project
• Bringing down corporations’ silos and tearing down under-performing top-down structures
• The sharing of a clear vision to all stakeholders, whilst creating a sense of commitment

As we enter new territory of what the workplace of the future might look like, its vital engagement and experience for employees continue to remain a priority for HR leaders and organizations generally. As businesses look to recovery, they must foster an environment that drives innovation, creativity, and new ideas.

If you want to find out more about engaging your teams in the new space-time dimension of hybrid work, sign up for our upcoming live and interactive webinar on May 18th where experts delve into how to unleash your teams’ full potential and set a new course to cruise the hybrid dimension of work. Register here.