Productivity

Emma Giles - September 24, 2024

How To Create The Perfect Meeting Cadence For Your Remote Team

The right meeting cadence can mean the difference between seamless productivity and team burnout. Especially for remote teams. Meetings are essential for collaboration, but only if they’re structured well. Too often, teams fall into the trap of hosting unproductive meetings that waste time without producing results.

Productivity

Emma Giles - September 22, 2024

5 Best Practices For Managing A Remote Team

Running a remote team isn't easy. From isolation and burnout to endless meetings and miscommunication, it can feel like you’re constantly putting out fires. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In this guide, we’ll break down the biggest challenges of managing remote teams and give you practical, proven solutions—so you can build a connected, productive team that thrives, no matter where they’re working.

Employee Engagement

Emma Giles - September 8, 2024

Run An Engaging Virtual Town Hall Meeting: Tips and Template

Running an engaging virtual town hall can feel like a daunting task. You need to create a meeting that's informative, inspiring, and engaging. And, when everyone logs out of the meeting, they need to feel aligned, motivated, and ready to take on challenging company goals as one team.

Employee Engagement

Eric Guigue - August 23, 2024

15 Unique Employee Engagement Ideas Your Remote Team Will Love

Remote teams can only take so many Zoom ‘virtual happy hours’. Those pandemic-era strategies are clunky, unnatural, and get old fast. They're not enough to boost employee engagement and build a strong, high-performing company culture.

Employee Engagement

Ana Marí - August 20, 2024

15 Fun 5-Minute Games For Virtual Meetings In 2024

My team feels lonely and isolated. How do I bring fun and team building to our virtual meetings? We hear this from a lot of remote team leaders. In our experience, it's because: Remote teams picked up tools like Zoom or Slack in the pandemic era.

Culture

Daniel Sanchez - August 14, 2024

7 Best Tips For Building A Strong Remote Work Culture

My remote team isn't collaborating effectively. Projects are stalling. My team feels lonely and isolated. We can't retain top talent. We're not reaching our goals.

Customer Stories

Emma Giles - June 7, 2024

Rocket Takeoffs Increased Weekly Productivity by 25% Using SoWork

Rocket Takeoffs helps realtors, engineers and contractors launch their construction projects. Their team is fully remote, spread across North America. Rocket loved the benefits of being remote, but something wasn’t working. They faced challenges with collaboration, communication, and maintaining a cohesive team culture. Productivity levels were inconsistent, despite teammates being talented. The quality of work suffered, and goals weren’t being achieved.

Customer Stories

Emma Giles - May 8, 2024

A SoWork Virtual Office Saved Pencil 9 Hundreds of Dollars Each Month

Pencil 9 is a software development and consulting company that works in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. They are a small team of 5 people that are distributed globally, with teammates in Atlanta, Denver, and London. Here’s how Tim Reckseen, the cofounder of Pencil 9, tackled team connection and efficiency challenges while saving on costs.

Customer Stories

Emma Giles - November 3, 2024

NetEase Increased Monthly Revenue by 20% Using SoWork

NetEase is a rapidly growing game development company. They have a distributed team working remotely across North America, spanning four time zones. Nate LaMartina, the Technical Art Director at their North American ADC, started to realize that his team wasn’t feeling like a cohesive unit. His team members felt disconnected and isolated. Collaboration suffered and the company's earnings potential went down. Nate and his team used practically every kind of communication software. Some people used Slack, others used Teams or Zoom, and some also tried the chat program made by NetEase. They talked through more formal channels, resulting in missed opportunities for spontaneous collaboration.

Customer Stories

Emma Giles - September 29, 2023

BY Venture Partners Used SoWork to 3x Productivity

‎Navigating efficiency challenges and staying connected hasn’t been easy for Guy Labaki and his team. Guy is an analyst at BY Venture Partners - a company that’s distributed across four different countries and multiple time zones. BY tried the usual meeting tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, but something was missing. Guy would send out meeting invites and spend a lot of time waiting, and then have to follow up, ultimately derailing productivity. It’s a very familiar story to most of us. ‎

Customer Stories

Emma Giles - September 20, 2023

How a Microsoft team reduced employee turnover with SoWork

"Distributed and completely disconnected from each other” is how Alice Ferng, Director of Innovation & Technology at Microsoft, used to describe her team. Spread out across 4 countries and 5 timezones, teammates were isolated from each other day-to-day. Employees struggled with feelings of isolation and disconnection. Despite regular video calls and collaborative tools, something was missing. ‎‎‎ ‎ ‎

Customer Stories

Emma Giles - September 11, 2023

Savage Global Marketing Saved 20 Hours/Week By Using Their SoWork Virtual HQ

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎With a staff that’s dispersed throughout the United States, Europe, and South America, increasing efficiency has been a big focus for Founder/CEO Christoper Savage. Savage Global Marketing (SGM) is a digital marketing, design, and creative agency. They noticed that their company goals and business metrics were struggling, and - their team was feeling more disconnected than ever.

Competitor Comparisons

Emma Giles - October 21, 2024

Kumospace vs SoWork: The Best Virtual Meeting App

In this article, we compare two digital offices: SoWork and Kumospace. We'll cover everything you need to know so you can make a choice your remote workers will love.

Meeting Templates

Emma Giles - August 5, 2024

6 Engaging Topics for Your Next Staff Meeting

Staff meetings are regular company-wide meetings. They're typically led by the CEO, founders, or team leader. The purpose of these meetings is to keep an entire team aligned. They focus on sharing updates, discussing current issues, brainstorming solutions, and coordinating actions related to company goals and objectives.

Meeting Templates

Emma Giles - April 10, 2023

Templates & Tips For Running An Effective All-Hands Meeting

Templates, tips, and automated notetaking for your next all-hands meeting.

Competitor Comparisons

Emma Giles - August 2, 2025

Gather Town vs SoWork: The Best Virtual Meeting App

In this article we compare SoWork and Gather Town. We’ll cover everything you need to know to pick the perfect virtual workplace for your remote team.

Productivity

Emma Giles - June 29, 2023

The Future of Productive Meetings: How AI Is Changing the Game

Unproductive Meetings Are a Big Fucking Deal Unproductive meetings are a big fucking deal. And we've been stuck in them since... forever. But it's 2023, and that's all changing. AI is revolutionizing meetings.

Insights

Emma Giles - October 6, 2024

Collaboration Tools for Remote Teams: You’re Missing The Most Important One

Is your remote team struggling with isolation, fragmented communication, and slowed progress? You have a gap in your toolkit, and it's the most important collaboration tool you could adopt for your remote team's success.

Employee Engagement

Emma Giles - January 1, 2023

How To Implement Teamwork Blocks

Ready to try Teamwork Blocks with your team? Save hundreds of hours, bring a shared 'place' back to your team's days, and have fun doing it. The average 30-person remote team saves hundreds of hours per week with Teamwork Blocks. That's fucked up.

Insights

Emma Giles - December 30, 2022

Are you thinking about your remote team’s tech stack all wrong?

Many digital-first teams have accidentally been adding bandaids to their tech stack instead of truly solving the problems their remote team is facing. Remote teams, like yours, need to come together to drive results as fast and effectively possible so they can take over the world - from anywhere in the world. And to do that, you need the right tech stack to support your team.

Productivity

Emma Giles - December 26, 2022

Escape Unproductive Meetings: 5 Tips from Remote Team Leaders