Which employee engagement initiatives have you enjoyed being a part of?

Regularly scheduled coffee meetups via video call. It's gave us a space to get to know each other on a personal basis and we knew it was there each week even if we couldn't make it some weeks.

At my workplace, we use AnnounceBot (https://announcebot.in/) in Microsoft Teams to welcome new team members and wish them on their birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions.

Given its evident links to job satisfaction and employee morale, employee engagement can be important to a company's success. Employee engagement is built and maintained through effective communication.

At a previous workplace we had 1 day a quarter where the whole office would give back to the community. The best example was where we built a kids play-gym for a women's refuge (i.e., de-weeded the gardens, built/ painted the woods, put together a basketball hoop etc.) It was amazing to see the kids glee and was just a super good way to connect and get to know the team in a non-confrontational way.

This is a really small thing, but at the end of each week, we wrap up with a quick 15 min session called "GLUTE", which stands for good, learnt, ugly, thankful, excited. We take 2 mins to think about what was good/a new learning/bad/thankful about the week just been, and what we're excited about in the coming week or weekend, and then share. I always found it really nice to a) hear how others found the week from their perspective (we're all remote), and b) what's going on in their lives outside of work.

Off-site meetings and activities.

Celebrating achievements and talking about improvements during Retrospectives

Since we are a startup and have no budget, we get together once a month to share stories about each other (our team is huge, 30+ people) and all volunteering, and so far, we have been able to keep everyone on our team for over a year. We believe in building an extremely diverse team, and celebrate everyones cultures and holidays in someway. For our team in NYC, we ended up going on a rooftop and celebrate holi! There is one less uglier tar rooftop in NY hahaha

As a huge sports lover, definitely company sports days or participating in charity tournaments, nothing trumps good sportsmanship and teamwork! Generally having an open-minded and encouraging environment that shapes the right culture in the company. Everyone is open to constructive feedback and sharing different opinions is supported.

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