Work-life balance is out ❌
Work-life integration is in ✅
At the end of the day, we're all human.
We strive for social connection, community, and camaraderie.
Introducing Favorites
Making it easy for employees to form new social connections, from anywhere.
You can now add your favorite🌯foods, 🎵music, 📚books, 🎬movies / TV shows, 🎙️podcasts, and more to your Helm Profile!
We're more "connected" than ever.
Yet lonelier than we've ever been . . .
Let's break the stigma of talking about loneliness.
We need to start having more conversations acknowledging the severity of this problem.
And talk about solutions.
*spoiler alert* 👇
The Loneliness Economy:
I spent the past few months going down the loneliness rabbit hole. I believe technology can help us belong.
🗺 Market map of 160+ startups ($8.5B raised in total)
📊 Comprehensive airtable (stage, investors, etc.)
🧠 Analysis of 6 categories & 21 sub
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The answer isn't to adopt yet *another* tool, more software, more tech
The problems of social isolation and loneliness have largely been exacerbated by tech.
Is technology part of the solution?
Work-life balance is out ❌
Work-life integration is in ✅
At the end of the day, we're all human.
We strive for social connection, community, and camaraderie.
If you aren't already, create a space for employees to showcase who they are.
🚀 Slack channels are a great first step!
✨ Then create some structure that helps people easily find and connect with folks who have similar interests.
What Helm does:
👋Make new hires feel welcome on day one
✅Guide them through their onboarding checklist
🤝Connect them with key teammates & resources
employees prefer remote work across the board. except when it comes to our sense of belonging...
question is: can software foster a sense of belonging?