Best Slack Tools for Hybrid Teams
The top 7 tools we've found in 2021 for collaboration, inclusion, and project management
While many companies are celebrating the vaccine roll-out by beginning to move back into the office, many employees are still working remotely, making hybrid teams more popular than ever. Whether it’s due to living in a different city than where the office is based, health risks or concerns about the pandemic, and balancing childcare (or anything else), hybrid work gives employees the flexibility to remain at home while being fully integrated team members.
Digital culture is now more important than ever to bring your in-person and remote team members together. While there are concerns that hybrid work poses potential risks to company communication, team engagement, and coordination, HR managers who work proactively to foster an inclusive environment for team members both in-person and digitally will be best positioned for future growth.
Let’s dig into the best tools for your hybrid team on Slack. We’ve gone ahead and divided up our list based on the most important aspects of hybrid work.
Collaboration
Standup.ly allows you to be flexible with asynchronous team meetings via text, voice, or video. It connects your team and saves time by automating processes and answering recurrent questions, ideal for hybrid teams with members on different schedules. Accessibility of resources should be equitable for employees working from home, and this is a great tool for that!
Carrot shares important news, updates, and decisions in a comprehensive daily update, ensuring that nobody misses organization developments whether they’re in the office or not. It offers clear and organized communication and even goes behind the scenes to nudge people to respond to unanswered questions.
Inclusion
We'd be remiss not to mention our own Coach, an automated Slackbot that uses AI to build digital culture and inclusion. It’s like a digital coworker that prompts team members to engage with each other and the company at their own pace - creating a more inclusive workspace for remote workers. You can pick from four different message packs to boost productivity, engage your team, champion diversity, equity, and inclusion, and transform your digital culture overall.
Enhance company-wide relationships with Donut. Donut matches up team members to have remote-friendly chats that helps strengthen personal connections and encourages peer learning, DEI discussions and more.
Project Management
Ganttic creates a visual workflow of all your resources, tasks, and projects allowing you to pivot and adjust whenever conflicts arise. While it can be hard to keep track of productivity, especially with hybrid work, online resource planning software like Ganttic ensures that all your team members are meeting deadlines and putting their best work forward.
With ToDoBot you can track all of your work tasks and manage all your “To-Do's” without having to leave Slack. This bot is a little treat for all your team members, translating messages and instructions quickly into tasks to maximize productivity.
ScrumGenius automates standups, surveys, meetings, and daily reporting across time zones, allowing your team to catch up anytime and anywhere. ScrumGenius ensures clear communication and coordination that is inclusive of remote workers while keeping in-person teams on track as well.
Taking advantage of AI based tools can help ease your team into new work arrangements while maintaining clear communication, team engagement, and coordination. Stay up-to-date by subscribing to our email newsletter today!