Community Is the New Buzzword—But We’re Doing It Wrong

About this episode

David Rice discusses the misconceptions of community building in the workplace with Jessie Jacob.

Most companies say they’re building community. What they often mean is: they launched a Slack channel no one reads, hosted an event with a neon sign and a DJ, watched people post about it on Instagram, and called the whole thing a success. Meanwhile, the people in the room never actually connected. In this episode, David sits down with Jessie Jacob, Culture First Community Manager at Culture Amp, to unpack why relational atrophy is becoming one of the defining workplace problems of the AI era...

People in this episode

Host: David Rice

Guest: Jessie Jacob

Topics covered

• community building
• workplace culture
• AI impact
• relational atrophy
• employee engagement

Keywords

• community
• workplace
• AI
• Culture Amp
• relational atrophy
• employee connection
• business culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Culture Amp

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