How to Sustain Company Culture with Remote Offices

H O W T O S U S TA I N C O M PA N Y C U LT U R E W I T H R E M O T E O F F I C E S

C R E A T E D B Y K E V I N X U

• Company culture has proven to be one of the deciding factors for new candidates in today’s corporate environment.

• But as the industry continues to develop, the rise of freelance roles and remote offices are climbing quickly for both big teams and smaller startups.

• As your business continues to grow, there may be a need to open remote locations.

• So, how do you build that culture right way even when there’s miles of distance in between?

A P P R E C I AT E Y O U R E M P L O Y E E S

• It’s important to show appreciation towards your employees and communicating their value is important to do early on.

• No one wants to put their all into work in an environment where they don’t feel like an integral part.

• Sometimes these luxuries come through perks like company equity or unlimited vacation time.

• But businesses also keep their employees happy by providing them with tools and resources to be more successful and productive.

C O L L A B O R AT I O N I S K E Y• Whether it’s on-site or

remote, employee collaboration is a huge part of a company’s culture.

• Creating open communication internally acts as the whiteboard or meeting rooms for remote teams.

• Networks like Slack allow for daily collaboration, in an enjoyable way.

• Slack has become the virtual space for many of businesses across the world.

• It invites ways for random, direct conversation, group threads, and separate channels to moderate the discussions.

• Slack as well as other like-services (i.e. Hipchat) increase the person-to-person communication and is great at bringing together bigger groups.

S T U D Y H O M E B A S E

• The best way to get familiar with an environment and it’s core is through spending time there.

• Often, when a company knows they have plans of opening another office soon, they make earlier decisions on who will be leading that office.

• This allows those leaders to study the culture, the people operations, and other elements that make homebase run smoothly.

• Ultimately, those leaders will put a structure in place at the new locations and do their best to mimic the successful environment that the company embodies.

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