The Secret of Online Table Seating

The Secret of Small Tables

Why all-hands side chatter is really culture-building gold

Imagine you’re leading your company’s all-hands meeting. While a few teams join virtually, most people attend in person.

As the room fills, chatter between employees spark up, and doesn’t immediately slow down. Even as you work through the agenda - murmuring, side comments and reactions pop up like conversation whack-a-mole.

It’s easy to write these moments off as distractions. Don’t!

It IS the good stuff!

Those conversations are where cross-company culture gets stronger. It’s where small seeds of empathy, understanding and insight into what a colleague is working on eventually bloom into new opportunities and improved communication.

In a physical all-hands meeting, small table conversations are vital and often misunderstood. In too many virtual all-hands meetings, they’re nowhere to be found.

Your people are too important to be relegated to a grid of muted, disengaged thumbnails. There’s a better way to break silos and make the most of rare opportunities to gather your teams together. It starts in LexGo.

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The bottom line: small tables = huge impact. Here’s a 94-second breakdown of what it looks like in practice.

Alex Bratton, LexGo Founder & Chief Geek