Best Virtual Team Building App for Remote Companies
Organise the most fun virtual team building activities with flat.social. Get started in minutes!
What is virtual team building?
Fostering the feeling of togetherness as a remote team can be challenging. Most of the meetings are goal-oriented and focus on achieving a certain objective, leaving personal connections and team spirit aside. If you’re using a tool like ZOOM for your remote work communications, spontaneity rarely occurs organically. It’s challenging to catch up with someone when you’re both embedded in a meeting that has 20 participants and someone is giving a presentation. Unfortunately, the limitations of standard video-conferencing significantly take away from the experience that one would otherwise have if working from a physical location.
While your remote company has to achieve its objectives, focusing solely on them will leave your employees feeling like digital worker bees and hurt your company culture.
But fear not. We’re here to help! :)
Virtual team building with flat.social
While working remotely has shown incredible benefits in the past years, a physical office still makes it easier for team members to meet, network and have fun together. Fostering company culture while everyone is distributed around the world is hard and the tools that we currently have at our disposal are optimised for productivity, not connection.
But this is changing.
Remote teams use flat.social to socialise, collaborate and throw virtual parties! Create a permanent meeting space where each guest can move around, talk with others in proximity and hide for gossip in private rooms. It’s fun, creative, unstructured and nourishes the connections between your team members. With a number of activities designed to bring your team together, flat.social can act both as a company event space and a permanent virtual office where your remote team can hang out, play and collaborate.
How to create a virtual team building space 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!
Virtual team building ideas
Create a virtual break room
Every space (we call it a flat) that you create in flat.social is permanent and you can access it through a user-friendly link. Our slack integration allows you to connect it directly with your Slack workspace and makes the flat accessible with just one single command.
A permanent virtual space can act as a break room for your team, a physical layer on top of your digital communications setup. Simply distribute the link around your team, add it to recurring calendar events or connect it directly with Slack. Also, every virtual space that you create with flat.social is fully customizable so you can make it fit the needs of your team and organization.
Organise virtual happy hours
Every team needs a break to celebrate their achievements, connect and feel more togetherness with their peers. Virtual happy hours are a great way to foster the team spirit and welcome new joiners!
With flat.social organising a virtual happy hours party is easier than ever. Simply create a virtual space and distribute the link around to your colleagues.
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.
See rooms & activities available
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.
