Saratoga, CA, March 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As remote work becomes a common practice across industries, it brings along numerous challenges to the workplace status quo. The challenge is to ensure their teams stay productive and motivated without being physically present in the workplace. Therefore, now is perhaps the best opportunity for leaders and management to step up and tackle the growing problem of employee engagement for distributed teams.
While remote working has its fair share of benefits, like saving time and money on commutes and encouraging better work-life balance, it also has some downsides. Remote workers can often feel less engaged and connected to their company, and this can further reflect on their productivity and performance. According to global engagement authority Gallup, engagement comes mostly from relationships, and that stays even more relevant for remote employee engagement. Research consistently demonstrates that when employees have strong relationships with their coworkers, employee engagement rises and brings all the other benefits you can think of with it. Gallup’s most notable data also points out that employees who report having a best friend at work are seven times more likely to be engaged. Unfortunately, the problem today is that while remote employment has grown significantly, remote employee engagement has not.
In this regard, businesses need to keep in mind that employee engagement is an ongoing journey that goes beyond team building and applies to every aspect of an employee's life cycle within a company. Developing further on this concept, Mohan Gummalam and Madhu Mathihalli founded Hermis to solve the rising problem of employee engagement in a world that’s increasingly becoming remote-first. Initially, they started with a product that was focused on team building. And now, after securing an initial seed funding in a round led by Array Ventures, including True Blue Partners and Zoom Video Communications via the Zoom Apps Fund, Hermis has grown stronger in its commitment to helping organizations bridge the culture gap for hybrid and remote-first workforce.
With the new funding, Hermis is expanding its offering to solve the broader problems related to employee engagement. Funtivity by Hermis, available on Zoom and Cisco Webex and soon coming to Teams, enables the use of technology to drive the future of the remote workplace by facilitating interesting ways to conduct Employee Onboarding, Daily Meetings, Diversity Networking, Learning & Training, Internal Job Fair, All Hands, and more. After the positive reactions and the much-deserved attention from the industry, the founders strongly feel that the key to making the product successful has been the sublime focus on not just making the video conferencing experience better for employees but also providing user-friendly features that enable asynchronous communication. The turnkey solution will significantly help companies build a culture of...