One of the top priorities for management is sustaining a collaborative culture post Covid. Regular leadership updates may be mission-critical but are insufficient. People need to interact and there are only two dimensions:

Face-to-face

• Face to face interaction is vital to sustaining culture, but the sums involved can be massive and surveys indicate that offices are likely to be 50% under-utilised post Covid.
• A city-centre office costs around £1,000 per employee per month.
• Converting part of an office to a gym or quality social space can be incredibly expensive.
• Hiring an external venue for social events or team-building exercises can easily exceed £100 per employee per event.

Online

• Online interaction with its low costs and usually 24/7 availability has also become vital to sustaining culture.
• Client and internal meetings and training courses are expected to remain mostly online to ensure a level playing field for all participants.
• A small minority will convert to a virtual office from a supplier such as Sococo at a monthly cost of £10 to £20 per seat depending on video usage.

Hybrid solutions

• Most firms are exploring hybrid solutions using platforms such as Zoom or Teams. However, unlike specialist platforms such as Remo, these workhorses were not designed for introductions across a busy room or random informal conversations in a hallway.
• The Forum has therefore developed a unique, secure, private, confidential Intra-Lounge® hosted 24/7 on the Remo platform with unlimited video and a choice of floorplans at a special launch rate of just £5 per seat per month per concurrent hall - see pricing table opposite.
• Larger firms can have multiple linked halls, each with up to 800 seats.

 How does an Intra-Lounge® work?

• Private guest list for each hall
• Move freely between virtual tables for two, four, six or eight people with a floor for each 100 seats, and sight of the avatars of everyone on the same floor in your hall.
• Converse privately with those on your table through video screen windows (small or tiled).
• Once a table is full, no-one else can join until someone leaves.
• Fully-functional stage/conference module (on managed basis)
• A shuffle function brings people together from across the firm on a random basis.
• Navigation boxes to move among halls and the firm's intranet.
• Leadership updates can be streamed to the screen in the main hall on each floor. 

HighQ Collaborate integration (50+ seat annual plans only)

• A private HighQ Collaborate site can be integrated at no cost
• This can provide a blog/discussion forum, events calendar, tasks module, document store, wiki, searchable list of employees etc
• Sophisticated tables, workflow and data visualisation are possible through the iSheet module
• Private messaging is easy from mini cards and employee lists
• Specify immediate, daily or weekly alerts for different activities