Yen Tan

Hi! I'm Yen, co-founder of Kona :) Kona has gone through a quantum leap: we’ve added ChatGPT for empathetic team support. It’s a challenging time to be a manager. With a tough macro environment, loftier performance goals, and burnt out teams, managers need to do more with less. That’s where Kona comes in. Hundreds of teams use Kona to share how they're feeling every day. Now, we can ensure...

Hi! I'm Yen, co-founder of Kona :) I’m excited to share Kona’s biggest upgrade yet: the People Analytics Hub. We spent several months working with the top People leaders in the world. Q4 was a challenging period for tech, and People Ops were the unsung heroes that kept their orgs afloat. Most startup HR teams worked with limited tools, gathering people insights through manual 1:1s and...

Hi! I'm Yen, one of the makers for this year's report:) 2022 has been a hard year for tech. With the Great Resignation and recent layoffs, teams are really hurting and feeling added pressure. We took a step back to take a snapshot of burnout. We talked to over 350+ managers at top startups and looked to industry experts for advice. As always, we didn’t hold back: You’ll get answers to: ☄️...

At Kona, our mission is to make remote work happier and healthier. For the past few months, we've been busy doing just that––Kona’s emotional check-ins in Slack have supported well-being efforts at over 400+ remote teams. Today, we’ve added new integrations to help People Ops teams do what they do best. With this new update, you can: ⚒️ Link Kona to your existing HRIS tool stack 👋 Roll out...

Hi! I'm Corine, author of this year's report:) 2022 has been full of surprises. COVID-19 is in its terrible twos. Teams flew across the world to meet up for the first time face-to-face. And there’s that whole thing with Twitter. We took a step back to take a snapshot of the Future of Work. We interviewed 350 remote leaders at 175 of the best tech companies. As always, we didn’t hold...

Love this and love the Hypercontext team!

We used Slingshow for our webinars and it completely changed our virtual presence. Slingshow creates an experience, it’s a welcome relief from boring Zoom events. Use it, you won’t be disappointed.

Hi! I'm Corine, one of the writers of this year's report:) 2021 has already been one crazy year. January saw the one-year anniversary of COVID-19. March marked a year of forced work-from-home. We hoped to take a snapshot of the world’s long-term remote experiment: its successes, its shortcomings, and its future beyond the vaccine. So we interviewed 200 remote managers at over 150+ tech...

The Yac team is always innovating. We're always talking to remote managers and Zoom fatigue is top of mind. Yac frees you up and makes work-life balance possible. I love this easy-to-use solution! Well done!!

This is so needed in remote work right now. Relationship building and trust are must-haves for distributed teams!