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20 of the Best Team Building Activities for Remote Teams
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20 of the Best Team Building Activities for Remote Teams

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Perkbox, 2024
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More and more workers are conducting their jobs from inside their own homes and potentially never encountering their colleagues in person. This reality calls for innovative and accessible approaches to building remote teams. As a manager, you want to build a team that becomes a cohesive group of people all aiming in the same direction. This smart article from Perkbox outlines steps you can take and tools you can use to make both onsite and remote workers feel intrinsic to their team’s daily life. 

Summary

Building and sustaining cohesive remote teams require managers to forge strong connections with remote workers.

Remote team building is important for increasing morale, empowering workers, and establishing a strong company culture. Managers overseeing teams with off-site members must take on the challenge of connecting with their employees across geographies.

A burst of virtual team-building activities can improve a company’s culture. Workers become happier and perform better when they feel recognized and appreciated. Such managerial efforts also pay off in better collaboration and communication. And, of course, strengthening each individual worker benefits the entire team and the company.

Platforms like Perkbox allow managers to celebrate their employees’ achievements with virtual broadcasts. Highlighting staff members’ achievements helps co-workers understand each other’s work — a critical piece of creating a cohesive unit, establishing mutual appreciation, and nurturing a healthy company culture.

Such practices influence the quality of work the company produces, based on the assumption that co-workers...

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Perkbox is a global benefits and rewards platform that helps businesses care for and connect with on-site and remote workers. 

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