On this week's Happy Teams podcast, David shares how Red Badger adapted their in-person culture after the pandemic forced sudden changes.
When Red Badger moved to remote work during COVID, their team had to rethink how to work together. Here's what David learned about keeping a close-knit team culture without an office. "Pre-pandemic, we were very much about being in person. Pretty much 5 days a week and by and large being on client site with our clients," David says. "Getting the work done was not a problem."
However, the prolonged remote work began affecting their culture: "We've always been a company that has tried to listen to what our employees want and what they think is valuable. We were going into the lockdown, we were thankfully pretty well prepared. We very quickly basically said to everyone, go and buy whatever you need to get set up at home... which is actually something we've kept now - if you join us, you get a thousand pounds working from your home budget to make sure that you've got a really good ergonomic setup at home."
Red Badger responded by implementing a minimum two-day in-person requirement, developed through company-wide consultation. "We got together as a company and reflected on what we want the culture to be now? And how do we achieve that?" David explains. "That wasn't for everybody. We definitely had a bit of churn in implementing that. But I've always believed in saying, let's make a decision for what's right for the business."
Catch the full conversation with David from Red Badger on the Happy Teams podcast.
