EXPERIENCE
How Gather Helped Our Teams Work “Better Together”
Greer
EXP 2022
Written By:
GREER CROW
Associate Visual Designer, Bottle Rocket
With all of the benefits of ‘Work from Wherever’
After
the biggest downside is the inability to easily
immediately dove into organizing and building
get together. This became even more painfully
out a custom map, creating an onboarding flow,
evident as the planning team for our annual
and integrating portals throughout the space to
hackathon, Rocket Science, realized that the
make it as user friendly as possible.
organic nature of the event would have to change to allow everyone, attending both inperson and remote, to truly experience it. Zoom burnout and forgotten team members seemed inevitable, but after much discussion, a new piece of software was suggested: enter Gather.
test,
our
team
was
sold.
The day of Rocket Science 2021 came; it was amazing. Team members could easily walk down a hallway and pop in and out of different rooms,
teams, they were able to meet inside of their to provide the same interaction we were used to,
gather.” This game-like environment is centered
in a fun and engaging fashion.
amazing platform made spending time together online as easy as it is in real life.
John
activities were happening. For fully remote rooms and collaborate easily. Gather allowed us
and the privacy of spatial limitations, this
Sally
say “hello” or participate in whatever random
way to work, host events, learn, hang out, and
proximity chat. Keeping the ease of collaboration
Brian
We
According to their site, Gather is simply “a better
around fully customizable spaces combined with
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one
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