Lauren Wagner 
Many companies have a practice of running a company-wide All-Hands or Town Hall meeting on a monthly or quarterly basis.
These meetings give every employee equal opportunity to hear from executives about the state of the company, learn about key projects, and participate in a Q&A. However, as companies grow increasingly distributed across locations and time zones, you’ll likely never get everyone in a single room for your all-hands again. The asynchronous all-hands experience becomes just as important as the live meeting. Democratizing access to information at a hybrid or remote company is paramount to an equitable employee experience.Â
If you’re the person doing the heavy lifting to share the all-hands recordings, summaries, and resources, you’ve felt the pain of finding the Zoom recording, watching through it to write a summary, and maybe even tried to document the timestamps of key agenda items. After hours of work, you’re sending that communication out via email or Slack and hoping employees leverage the information. You probably don’t have any insight into who opened that email, or if anyone has watched the recording. After all of that, it’s probably a bit disheartening to realize that employees are not necessarily actually engaging with that content. Maybe you’re already stretched too thin, and simply share a link to the Zoom recording in Slack for employees to watch if they need it, skipping the extra summaries to help them navigate the video.
The employee experience isn’t always frictionless either. We’ve all missed an important meeting while we were out on vacation and thought “I’ll catch the recording when I’m back”. Well, once you return to work, you find a million other emails, Slack threads, and catch-ups awaiting you. Suddenly, it feels effortful to sit through an hour-long Zoom recording, or clicking through it in attempts to find the topics that might be most important to you.
