Best All-Hands Meeting Tool for Remote Companies
Organise a all-hands meeting for your team in a fun virtual workplace. Get started in minutes!
What is an all hands meeting?
Sometimes also called a town hall, an all-hands meeting is a regular company-wide meeting in which all leaders, stakeholders, and employees gather to discuss the most important topics within the organization.
The main goals of all-hands meetings include sharing the most recent business updates, aligning the team mission, and celebrating milestones and the people who contributed to achieving them. Even though an all-hands meeting usually has a defined agenda, it also allows peers to connect at company-wide and discuss important information.
A virtual all-hands meeting for remote teams
For companies that have a physical office, organising an engaging all-hands meeting is easy. A physical location allows not only to present the meeting agenda to the employees but also provides an opportunity for networking.
If you’re organising an all-hands meeting through a standard video-conferencing software, most probably the dynamics of the meeting will be very one-directional. Selected leaders will present their thoughts and updates while the rest of the company listens in silence. While this is an important part of this gathering, it omits the natural conversations that would happen between the employees. It’s a presentation without the networking aspect.
More engaging virtual all-hands meetings for remote teams
How to engage attendees of an all-hands meeting better? The answer is simple - allow them to interact with each other!
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. This allows for conversations to flow naturally - starting a chat is as simple as flying up to someone!
How to create a virtual all-hands meeting with flat social?
Creating your first virtual workspace is really simple - you only need to create a permanent space (takes less than minute) and distribute the link to your team. 1. Sign up for free & create a virtual space on flat.social
2. Customise the space and brand it with your team’s logo
3. Add the link to the calendar invites. The link to a flat is permanent and never changes which makes it easier to join in.
4. If you wish, connect the virtual space with your Slack workspace and set up recurring reminders that will notify your team about any events and meetings that you would like to organise in the space. Organising an agile retrospective every week on Friday? Add it to the recurrent events!
Movement and Interaction
With flat.social participants are not chained to a grid of tiny squares like they would in a classic videoconference. Instead, they can move around the rooms like they would in any multiplayer game.
Learn more about movement & interaction
Rooms & Activities
Your new virtual spaces can consist of multiple different types of rooms. Each room can be different - a mini-game, activity or something special for your team.
Dependently on the type of room, you will be able to host from 10 to 100 simultaneous guests.
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Spatial Media
By default each guest can only hear & see others around. Spatial audio and video allows for more natural and spontaneous conversations that are based on proximity, not on the loudest guests.
Want to speak with someone? Simply fly up!
Learn more about spatial audio & video
Collaborative, real-time whiteboard
Add colorful drawings, images, stickers, sticky notes and much more. Whichever room or activity type you choose, you can use it as a real-time collaborative whiteboard.
Build your own space
Build your own virtual space for your team or event by selecting from many of the available rooms and activities.
Each room is special and can be placed in whichever position you want. Fancy a quick retreat on the beach? Simply add the beach elements into your space :)
Physics 💫
Expression
It's so much more than just a plain video-chat. Guests in a flat.social meeting can express themselves through a variety of virtual gestures and customizations on how they present themselves.
From becoming a godzilla to doing a frog dance, it's all built to be playful and interactive.
Presentations and Screensharing
Engage your guests with interactive presentations and talks by using the spatial screen sharing and broadcasting features! Whether you're giving a talk or want to present something with a real-time video stream, sharing the live screenshare will be an experience that seamlessly integrates into the virtual space.
Frequently asked questions
What are the fun features of flat.social?
From flying around to playing football and doing a frog dance, there is plenty! We built those features to make flat.social the most fun place to organise an event online. Read more features that we built.
Is there a need to install anything?
No need to install anything new. It all runs in the web browser both on desktop and mobile. Safari and Chrome are doing great, Firefox is catching up!
Do you support simultaneous screensharing?
Yep, a number of participants can screenshare at the same time. Those can be positioned next to each other or distributed in various locations around the virtual space.
How much does it cost?
Check out thepricing page to see free and pro plans available.
Can I use it as an alternative to ZOOM or Microsoft Teams?
Sure, if all you do is fun and creative meetings! (we sincerly hope so:)
Over the past 3 years we learned that while ZOOM and Microsoft teams are amazing tools to keep you productive, they're not optimized to to keep a group of people connected, engaged and happy.
Hence, flat.social was created. It does not aim to be a complete replacement - it's an addition for when the priorities switch from productivity to human interaction. It's here to bring smile and show that spontanous creative moments and connections can happen without having to travel to an office or an event venue.
How do participants move in a flat.social meeting?
Meeting attendees can use WASD keys like in multi-player games or drag themselves around with a mouse.
How do I speak to all of the guests at once?
The experience is spatial by default - only ones around will hear you. You can however use the loudspeaker feature to speak to everyone at once. It's useful if you want to make an announcement or managing a larger workshop where attendees are distributed around the room.
