Rollcall makes it easy to organize remote meetings with people in any timezone. Add to Slack, create an agenda, schedule a timeframe and the Rollcall bot collects your standup in text, audio-only, screen share and video formats.

Hey PH! We’re excited to launch Rollcall: a Slack integration that helps remote teams stay connected with asynchronous team meetings. I've worked as a product manager for remote teams, and my partner has run development teams for clients across different locations and timezones. As team managers, we find the biggest problem with remote teams is it's hard to both scale, and stay in sync, without spending way too much time on calls. We built Rollcall to simplify standups and eliminate all the time wasted on Zoom calls. Staying in sync is crucial to remote teams, but sometimes video calls are an unnecessary tax. Asynchronous updates have worked better for us when operating in different time zones, with different internet speeds. Get better updates when your team can join at times that work for them. Avoid delays or internet issues with pre-recorded updates in audio, video, text or screen share. Recording reminders are triggered in Slack, and when all updates are recorded, we drop the concatenated, concise version it in your Slack channel for everyone to view and comment. Any feedback is extremely appreciated as we start to prioritize new features (Microsoft Teams and additional task management platform integrations coming soon!). Thanks! Mike

asynchronous communication in remote work is crucial. the problem is, how do you switch old-school organization into new way of thinking? the people in the old-school organizations expect instant replies.

@vladojsem I think culture change takes a movement from the bottom up. It can't be a top-down mandate. The tools and work habits that help smaller teams within organizations become more efficient will eventually be adopted by the top if they prove more successful. Either by those employees advancing faster in their career, or by management recognizing the advantage. Although it's different in every organization. Just speaking from my experience in software.

@vladojsem That's a very good point! Just to add my 2 cents into this. Companies right now are forced to work remotely because of the pandemic. Thus the teams are actively adapting into the situation. I believe there is a vacuum in remote collaboration tools area.

@vladojsem @mike_mcmillan2 My favourite thing is when big corporations ape the activities they hear about from startups without really getting the underlying purpose of it. Here in Tokyo there's a shared workspace deep in the CBD which is like a ghost town - they make all their money from huge corporations which have offices in the area. Apparently once in a while a phalanx of salarimen will troop into one of their meeting rooms and have the same meeting they would have had, except now it's in a shared workspace. Why? Because creative companies often use shared workspaces. I like to think of the execs going, "so... does the creativity start soon, or..?" I call it 'cargo culting'.

@toktik i am a bit afraid that it is not the case. if vaccination goes well - which is what i hope for - the companies will be happy to go back to their previous habits. even most of the employees will be happy to start visiting offices again. i mean, there are companies that switch to fully or partially remote and never go back. i just don't see it as the majority. the remote tool market will grow, i am just saying not all the companies that switched to remote also stay remote. @rob_chap i liked your tokyo example :-) it is very similar to how i see things.

Sounds very promising. Will be nice to see a featuring demo video too!

@vpez great point, I’ll make one!

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