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Creating a fun environment for remote workers (Hailey)

Hailey is a Slack bot that builds camaraderie, connection, and recognition through prompts and social mini-games. Add her to any channel and she'll start connecting your team on autopilot.

Hailey is unique in its focus on building culture asynchronously. With games like "Guess Who" and "Superlatives", teammates can connect with each other on their own schedules, in their own time zones.

Just four years ago, office workers were told to stay home and likely return in two weeks.  What happened net? A multi-year pandemic ensued.  From there, work environments and company policies changed forever.  The battle over where employees work started in earnest. Human Resources departments were the tip of the spear for implementing new remote work policies, but at the beginning, much of the change was reactive, and responding to one of two things:

The debate over remote work can be summed up in one sentence.  Two uninformed sides arguing against each other for three years, with one side seemingly throwing in the towel in January.  Any guesses to who blinked first?  

First, a little history on the twists and turns remote work has taken since the pandemic.  Messaging from company management teams typically went something like this: