That means some days you will want to use this time to check in on people’s well-being, and on others you will want to use it to laugh, have fun, and play together. I recommend the rule of 1/6: For every hour of meeting time, 1/6, or 10 minutes, should be devoted to relationship-building.

In my latest book, focused on how to build a great remote team culture, I explore a few ways teams can help take care of each other by carving out more time for joy in their days. While laughter is not a cure-all, it is an action that decreases depression and anxiety, and one that is also a scarce commodity right now. Research conducted in the fall of 2020 by workplace expert Jennifer Moss found that 85% of people have expressed a decline in well-being since the start of the pandemic. In fact, sometimes the very thing we need to brighten the repetitive days of back-to-back meetings and email overload is … laughter. See more from Ascend here.Īfter a brutal year of working remotely - and often alone - many of us have forgotten the importance of allowing ourselves moments of joy.

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