Gather Onboarding Guide

Add a link to it in your Gather Pilot Announcement. You may also consider hosting a Gather training session to review the slide deck with your team. 

Don’t forget to save a copy in a place that’s easily accessible for your team members. For example, that could be saved in Notion, stored in Google Drive, pinned in a Slack channel, or even embedded in an object in your Gather office.

To add members, open the Participants Panel (the people icon in the bottom navigation bar) and click Invite at the top. Use Invite by Link to copy a URL you can share in Slack, email, etc.

If you’re unsure about the best pilot path for your team, contact us. We’ve helped over 10,000 remote organizations, ranging from startups to Fortune 500s, build their virtual office on Gather, and we’d love to help yours next!

For most teams, Gather replaces Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet as the primary meeting tool. Instead of only opening Gather for meetings, however, each person keeps the app open for the duration of the workday so it’s easy to talk to people at any time. 

For chat, Gather will co-exist with your current tool. Gather chat is best suited for conversations during meetings or announcements in the virtual office. Most teams continue to use a tool like Slack or Microsoft Teams for asynchronous chat and file-sharing. 

The best way to make it easy to manage multiple tools is to set clear expectations for usage. For recommendations on how to communicate expectations to the team, check out the Onboarding Guide Template.