Morning Brew uses Donut to randomly pair cross-department employees
Kate Noel · Building Your Team #6: Ask an HR Executive · Oct 1, 2021 · at 14:39
Morning Brew Head of People Kate Noel explains Morning Brew's internal onboarding initiatives to co-founder Alex Lieberman.
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“Well, actually, we created a moment called Coffee Chats which is, oh, actually, it's Donut. It's a Slack channel that allows new hires to be included in the Slack where they're just randomly grouped up with, like, five other people outside of their department. It happens every other week, and they're automatically put into that Slack channel”
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