The secret to having a great company culture when you’re all at home

The office is dead! Long live working from wherever you happen to be today!

Which could still be the office - if that suits you better – or it could be the office just one or two days a week (if your employees have to come to the office on rota because of social distancing guidelines). That’s the point really. Now we all know that most of us can work from home (or the shed, or the garage, or wherever …), people and businesses are going to be very reluctant to go back to the way we were. And that brings with it a raft of other challenges – particularly from a company culture, employee engagement and IT/governance perspective. We’re currently using our blogs to explore some of these issues, alongside a range of webinars we’re running too (see our Events), bringing you tips, advice and discussion around these challenges and how to mitigate them.

Let’s start with company culture. I’m going to be bold here – if you don’t have a company intranet then you’re going to find it nigh on impossible to build your company culture and keep your employees engaged. I don’t mean an old fashioned, last century style, electronic messaging board with document sharing functionality, that no-one ever reads, and where only Barbara in HR posts notices about expenses due dates. I’m talking about modern intranets, such as Valo, that can become the lifeblood of your business, the core of your company culture, leading to engaged employees, who feel part of the bigger picture, valued and listened to. And we all know that engaged employees are happier, more productive and less likely to leave.

How can a modern intranet get you to this company culture nirvana? Well, the secret is it’s not actually that big a secret …