Walk over to someone’s desk and ask or show something is an underrated feature of work life. And when that’s gone what do we do?

Discord at work

It’s been a year since the first lockdown began and our work-life changed. Working from home forced us to rethink the way we are modelling a working environment. Among the many challenges this crisis brought, communication was, in my opinion, the most difficult. When you can’t just come by your colleagues’ desk or passively listen to conversations in the open space, how do you keep track of what’s going on and maintain a sense of company belonging? After some experiments, using Discord help me find back a lot of what I missed about working at the office. I find communications so much more empowered when Slack is combined with a Discord server. With audio Channels, Discord provides this proximity, visibility and reachability I couldn’t find in any other tool. But despite that, I’m still surprised how underrated Discord is within the corporate environment.