How we caught remote vibes

Time does not stand still. Remembering those distant days when everyone went to the office, drank morning coffee in the lobby bar, worked side by side in the spacious open space, and in the evenings visited the corporate fitness room, it becomes a little sad. But what to do … you have to accept the circumstances and adapt to them. Still, creativity does not tolerate restrictions, especially in the field of IT. If it is more convenient for someone to solve work tasks in a home chair – OK! So it’s time to learn how to interact with remote workers. We are the creators of the VLSI ecosystem, it has super-convenient services for this mode of operation – video calls and webinars. Morning calls with the team, meetings, discussion of pressing issues, the opportunity to see each other after 1000 km and all this without leaving home.

Webinars are generally able to connect up to 10K people at the same time! Agree, we save time and convenience, and we participate in all projects without interruption.

We figured out the work, but what about entertainment?

Let’s get acquainted, my name is Irina Moskaleva, I am the HR Development Director of Tenzor Company. I would like to brag about our rich corporate online life and, most importantly, to emphasize that everything is created by the hands of passionate employees, so to speak, ideological enthusiasts. So, in order, first about communities of interest:

Perhaps the very first formed book club for all lovers of reading at their leisure. Main bonus “Tensor Libraries” free access to many online books. We collect different literature: from classics to comics. We also do not forget about sources for professional growth and regularly receive feedback from employees regarding the purchase of new books for the Library. By the way, club members come here not only to find the right work! Non-trivial facts from the life of characters and authors, contests with real prizes, and even fortune-telling from book lines are published here weekly!

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Group “Library Tensor”

As you understand, advanced and inquisitive people live in an IT company, they are constantly learning something. So we have a group of people who want to improve in English English tea party. This is not a place with boring courses where you need to somehow motivate yourself, cram and artificially memorize the next words and phrases. This is an entertainment channel where we learn a foreign language in a game format. Films, quizzes, pranks – this is how we immerse ourselves in overseas culture over a cup of tea.

Group for learning English

Group for learning English

Moving on… Welcome to the travel fan club “My native”. We discuss the expanses of our vast territory, discover places where it is definitely worth visiting, and we make a list of “must see” according to the stories of local – our colleagues from different regions. Given that Tensor has about 100 branches throughout Russia, this community is one of the most active and the information in it (like our country) has no end! Many have already visited each other on a visit and are not going to stop there.

Russian travel group

Russian travel group

Living within four walls is definitely not about our employees. However, we do not leave the burrows only to travel. Many colleagues have a dacha or dream of their country garden. Here a meeting of experts on estate secrets comes to the rescue. “SNT Tensor”. How to properly plan a site, what material should be used when building a gazebo, how to grow cucumbers correctly, and what delicious recipes for cooking kebabs are published there … mmm

Group for summer residents and gardeners

Group for summer residents and gardeners

Everyone loves to eat deliciously, but what about a beautiful aesthetic figure? And this is what we can do! Proper nutrition, immersion in a healthy lifestyle, posture correction, fitness training at home – this will be told by the sports group “Vitamin T”. The guys share their success stories and inspire those who are just thinking about a new lifestyle. And there are marathons of harmony and challenges with corporate gifts! Of course, we recognize that sometimes living in a virtual world is also useful. It develops imagination, teaches to think more broadly.

Group for healthy lifestyles and athletes

Group for healthy lifestyles and athletes

Thus appeared “Gaming community”. Mostly fans of CS and Dota online shooters gathered here. Training fights, thematic contests, interviews with old players, and most importantly, participation in the annual large-scale TensorCyberGames tournament, which lasts 5 months! We did not stop there and in 2022 we applied for participation in an esports tournament among IT companies from NONAME eSports in CS:GO. I am proud to announce that our team got the first place cup!

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Group of esportsmen

In fact, there are still a lot of interest groups. But, dear reader, to immerse yourself in our corporate culture, it is worth talking about the “icing” on the cake – online entertainment.

Our main achievement in working with remote employees is their maximum involvement in the life of the company outside of work.

Have you tried to celebrate the New Year online? We are yes! For example, our New Year’s corporate party takes place both in restaurants and on screens.

Tensor TV is a legendary corporate television project that has been successfully implemented since 2020. This is a full-fledged 5 (or even 6) hour broadcast with a presenter, music, incredible videos from employees from all cities, as well as contests and the Director’s New Year’s message. Preparation takes as much as 2 months. An exclusive scenario for each broadcast, full-fledged shooting days for videos, designer screensavers, a variety of interactive activities and dozens of test runs. From year to year, the content for online corporate events is getting better, more creative and catches the viewer from the first minutes. During the broadcast, employees can chat, share photos, order tracks for a musical break. The feature of this year’s broadcast was the tele-bridge! Live, we passed each other greetings, congratulations, clinked champagne and shared the news! It’s great that everyone can connect to “Tensor TV” from any place where there is Internet! It is priceless to see yourself or your beloved colleague on TV! We are happy to give these emotions to our employees 🙂

Broadcast "Tensor TV" on home TV

Broadcast “Tensor TV” on home TV

Naturally, we have fun more than once a year. “Musicality” – another HR project.

This is a unique quiz with themed handmade rounds. At the end of each month, we look forward to a new broadcast and compete with each other in musical knowledge. We play, by the way, without any prize. Passion is the main motivator. More than 50 participating teams from different parts of the country play in “Musicality” every month 🙂

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Employees during the game in “Musicality”

We support employees’ hobbies in every possible way with online tournaments (chess, soper), challenges (running, cycling), intellectual games (CHG).

And most importantly, most of the listed online activities are implemented thanks to our webinar platform! It’s nice to use your own technology in such creative tasks. This may not fully replace live communication, but we were able to create a recipe for maintaining corporate spirit through the screen.

Share your experience and ideas in the comments, as well as ask questions 😉

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