Wonder What Is a Virtual Workplace?

What is a virtual workplace?

A virtual workspace is a digital office space that features collaboration tools that replicate the experience of a physical office space. It can act as a collaborative hub for teams that work remotely and don't have physical HQ where they can meet in person daily.

Setting up an online workspace is one of the best things that can be done to deliberately bring the team together and provide a space to interact - from fun coffee catchups to more serious meetings like daily stand-ups and retrospectives.

Create a virtual workspace with flat.social

Flat.social allows your remote team to brainstorm, connect and collaborate in a fun virtual workspace that replicates the communicational dynamics of a physical office. At the core, every participant can move around and talk with others in proximity.

Creating your first virtual workspace is really simple - you only need to create a permanent space (takes less than a minute) and distribute the link to your team.

What can a remote team do in a virtual workspace?

A virtual workplace on flat.social is a flexible online meeting space which can be customised for many different use cases. Just like a physical office is not just a place to work, a virtual office can be also a place to organise all sorts of meetings - from creative ideations to virtual happy hours.

So, what can a virtual workplace be used for?

1. Improved team collaboration

When remote employees attend only the meetings that were scheduled for them, the process becomes goal-oriented and collaboration between different teams vanishes. Having a virtual workspace where peers from different departments and teams can meet to network helps the information flow, and ideation and prevents your company from fragmenting into tiny project-oriented silos.

What are the benefits of a virtual workspace?

1. Improved team collaboration

When remote employees attend only the meetings that were scheduled for them, the process becomes goal-oriented and collaboration between different teams vanishes. Having a virtual workspace where peers from different departments and teams can meet to network helps the information flow, and ideation and prevents your company from fragmenting into tiny project-oriented silos.

2. Better employee experience

Employees of a remote company don't have the same daily experience as the ones who work in a physical office. While that's obvious, it comes with great implications in terms of how they connect. Imagine new team members joining a company that has a physical office. As the first days of the new exciting work continue, the new joiner will bump into different employees spontaneously during meetings, lunch breaks, and water-cooler moments.

New employees who join the company remotely don't have this luxury. Scheduled meetings are usually goal-oriented and don't focus on embedding the new member into the team culture and making sure that a proper welcome was given.

3. Reduced costs and expenses

While this applies to remote work in general, it shows the benefit of having a virtual workplace pretty well. Physical offices, especially when located in capital cities around the world, are incredibly expensive. Add the cost of travel on top of that and the money spent is piling up.

Having a virtual office that replicates the experience of the physical one can provide most of the benefits while keeping the cost (both in money and time) low.