Spotted: Employers know that unhappy employees make for less productive workplaces. Researchers have quantified some of those feelings, finding that when employees feel isolated, productivity drops by 21 percent.
Team building is a long-standing method of fostering more connected, communicative employees, and following the many months of working from home during the pandemic, steps challenges became one way that remote workers were able to do something together. Lithuanian startup Walk15 recognized the popularity of such challenges and designed a platform that makes the exercise as good for the planet as it is for employees.
