Belonging 3.0: Deepening workplace connection in distributed teams

11.20am – 12pm BST, 12 June 2024 ‐ 40 mins

Workshop

The past year saw “The Great Return” with several high profile media stories of employers and employees at loggerheads as bosses sought to transition back to office-based working arrangements. This led to many workplaces dealing with “the flexibility dilemma”: Recognition that flexible work has benefits for employees and employers alike, but also sensing that less face-to-face time may be detrimental to forging relationships and strong company cultures. 

This contribution shares some of the speaker’s original PhD research on belonging in remote and hybrid teams, with an emphasis on immersive technology for social connection in the workplace. The audience will be taken on a journey from “the cave” to “the spatial internet” in order to share a deeper understanding of what belonging means from an evolutionary perspective, and how Internal Communicators can help recreate this human need in an age of virtual teams. 
 

Three takeaways from the session:

1. Insight into the nexus of the next evolution of the internet, our evolving workplaces and human connection
2. Understanding of what new research into immersive tech means for Internal Communications professionals
3. A new approach to internal communication and collaboration tool stacks for maximising belonging in distributed and hybrid teams 

Aimed at the following practitioner levels:

• Head of
• Manager
• Junior

Speakers

Jo Eyre

MD, Voxeon Communications

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Jo Eyre

MD, Voxeon Communications

Jo Eyre is the MD of Voxeon Communications, specialising in internal communications for distributed teams. With experience at the nexus of communication, digital anthropology and frontier technologies, Jo has spent the past 17 years advising startups, governments and some of the world's best known corporations across six continents.

As a PhD candidate in Information and Communication, she researches using emerging tech to foster belonging in remote and hybrid teams.

Most of Jo’s career has been spent working remotely, living in various countries in Africa as well as the UK. Jo currently lives in Cape Town with her husband, and two children.