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‍The most valuable meetings improve interpersonal relationships, lead to dynamic conversations, and increase access to information outside of your immediate team. And these 3 are proven to do just that!

CTO Labs has created a bustling virtual office that fuels collaboration, innovation, and a great work environment. To give you a sense of what it’s like to work day to day in Gather, here’s an inside look at CTO Labs’ virtual HQ.

‍To help you hold productive and engaging conversations on Gather, this guide will teach you how to schedule meetings, interact during conversations, and share best practices for meeting in a virtual office.

‍To help you create the virtual office of your dreams, this guide will explain the floor plans of our starter templates and offer inspiration for how you can customize your space.

Now that you’ve created your first virtual office, it’s time to bring in members of your team. These best practices will help you onboard your coworkers and ensure they have a great first experience working in Gather.

To give you better visibility into your virtual office when you’re working in other windows, we’ve released a brand new version of the desktop minimode! This gives you a mini Gather window that lets you see activity near you in the office while you stay focused on the task at hand.

Welcome to your brand new virtual HQ! To help you get the most of your virtual office, here’s a quick overview of how to use Gather.

Start your next virtual meeting with one of these 5-minute games to build trust, increase collaboration, and boost team morale.

Learn more about how Flywheel Software got started with Gather (hackathons!) and hear their best advice for other teams onboarding to a virtual office.

Experience new ways to express yourself and interact with those around you in our latest desk update.

With Gather, remote employees can share the same experience of decorating a desk and learning more about your teammates as you walk around a virtual office. This guide will explain how to decorate your Gather desk, and then share some pixel-perfect examples to inspire your setup!

Engage your team, encourage socialization, and have a little bit of friendly competition. Learn how to host a Go Kart Social with the Gather Grand Prix!

Preparing for PTO? Here are 5 ways Gather can help you communicate your leave plans and prepare to be out of office.

Streamline the process of creating a meeting by choosing a specific location for your conversation.

We’re incredibly proud of everything our team has accomplished this year, and are more inspired by our customers than ever. Here’s a look at some of our biggest moments from 2022!

To make the process of picking a plan a little easier, we’ve updated the payment flow you’ll experience within the Gather app.

Conversamos com Marcos, CTO e Co-Fundador, e Ricardo, Diretor Executivo de Estratégia de Parceiros, para saber mais sobre como sua equipe usa a Gather para facilitar interações significativas para sua equipe híbrida.

Marvin is revolutionizing B2B payment methods with a hybrid team based in São Paulo, Brazil. Learn how they use Gather to facilitate meaningful interactions for their hybrid team.

It may not surprise you that at Gather, we go to work in our virtual office on the very tool we build. Our teams are constantly using the various features we build in order to supercharge remote culture, improve productivity, and collaborate together. We sat down with three members of our People and Talent teams to share with you how they Gather.

Take a tour through the RITE team's virtual office on Gather. They've intentionally designed their Space to reflect their company values and create a place where all employees can build strong relationships and experience chance encounters with each other.

If you’re using the Gather Desktop App, you can now enable real-time native OS notifications on Mac and Windows devices.

Ready to host your team’s favorite virtual holiday party yet? Follow these steps to plan your party in Gather!

Transform your Gather office into a winter wonderland with these quick and easy decorating tips.

It may not surprise you that at Gather, we go to work in our virtual office on the very tool we build. Our teams are testing new office features every day as we tinker, build, and collaborate on Gather! We sat down with three members of our engineering team to share with you how they Gather.

A weme ajuda seus clientes a transformarem completamente seus negócios. E assim, a weme também transformou seu ecossistema de inovaçãoem uma agradável e altamente integrada comunidade digital na Gather.

weme transformed their in-person innovation ecosystem to a highly-connected, delightful digital community on Gather. Here’s the story of how they created a joyful culture that inspires connections that employees and clients love to be a part of!

Our EPD team (Engineering, Product, and Design) held a two-week sprint entirely focused on the details of the Gather experience, in which they fixed 116 bugs! We sat down with three members of the team to get a behind-the-scenes look at this unique sprint.

Jump into meetings in your virtual office straight from Slack with a brand new Gather Slack App!

To help your team thrive when using Gather, we’ve launched 116 improvements and bug fixes that make it easier to use, more reliable, and a little more fun!

Gather atualizou e transformou a cultura, a produtividade e a capacidade da Redspark de buscar talentos em todo o Brasil. Vamos descobrir como foi feito!

We visited Redspark's Gather office to chat with Isabella (“Isa”) Sales, the People Area Manager overseeing culture strategy at Redspark. Isa shared how Gather has upgraded and transformed Redspark’s remote work culture, productivity, and ability to source talent all across Brazil.

Ready to bring the season of pumpkin spice into your Gather office? Follow these tips to customize your office and engage your team.

The official guide for moving your remote team to Gather and making your new virtual office feel like home.

Raise your hand when you have a question, share how you’re feeling with emojis, and follow along with a new Reactions Feed!

Avoid meeting fatigue and keep your remote team happy and engaged by creating an energizing meeting environment. With these tips, you'll re-engage your teams on video calls and hold more productive meetings.

Now you can blur your background while you’re on video calls, and give high-fives to your friends in the office.

Host your team on Gather with a remote office-optimized meeting experience. Create meetings from our new Chrome Extension and join your teammates in one click.

TradeLink scaled their remote company culture thanks to intentional, engaging meeting spaces in their virtual office on Gather. Read more about their onboarding process and tips for other remote teams!

Virtual Town Hall (or All Hands) meetings are essential for building a strong remote culture and team alignment. Learn our best practices for keeping your team engaged and inspired.

Virtual meeting fatigue (a.k.a Zoom fatigue) is making remote teams suffer. Click here to get research-backed tips on how to eliminate it completely.

Looking for the best virtual meeting apps for your remote team? Read this guide to explore the best options in 2022.

To help you hold more productive and enjoyable meetings, check out these examples of how to arrange your Gather Space.

Grab your coworkers for a digital break around the race track, and learn about the latest improvements to the Gather desktop app.

Zoom is still a high-quality meeting app, but the remote teams of tomorrow are using alternatives to build a stronger remote culture and hold more engaging virtual meetings. Here's our top 5!

Bond with your team over some of the most beloved board games, and learn about updates to chat sounds, Do Not Disturb Mode, and map templates.

New-and-improved video and audio performance along with meeting controls and screenshare improvements.

How do you throw an online social that isn’t just another grid of videos?

Introducing new team building activities (Socials!), a semi-secret park space, and a variety of bug fixes.

We’ve released updates to the Mapmaker experience, improvements for admins, and a variety of other bug fixes.

We’ve partnered with Raid the Room to bring you a virtual escape room, made Go-Karts available in every Space via an extension, and launched several other small fixes this week.

Woof, woof, woof! Now you can add office pets to your Space, use Photo Mode to take pictures, and mass mute everyone (great for events).

Learn about the latest updates in Gather, including new customizable event maps, in-Space event schedules, and Talk Rooms – perfect for event panels or Q&A!

This week, the latest updates to Gather were all about the details! The team fixed several bugs that will make your day-to-day a little more pixel-perfect.

We’ve released a brand new app layout, a bigger video grid, and a world-clock extension for collaborating across time zones.

Now it’s easier to add your logo (and actually make it the right size). We’ve also added a new extension that makes it easy to collect votes from your team

This will take longer for your Space to load, but will ensure guests or coworkers never see a blank object in the Room (which can happen when objects load upon discovery)..

Discover the benefits of hosting a virtual job fair in Gather and begin planning your own.

This week we’ve fixed a whole bunch of bugs, plus added new door objects that require a password to enter. (Great for creating extra private Rooms!)

Now you can request coworkers or guests to automatically follow your avatar, making it easy to give tours of your Space or continue a conversation while moving through the office.

Our new Debug Mode will make it easier for our team to troubleshoot issues if they arrive in your Space, or you can try it yourself to see incoming/outgoing audio and video.

Congratulations to the 450 sponsored non-profits and open-source organizations who took part in the Gather Sponsorship Program!

When’s the last time you got paid to take a week to explore your passions?

Learn about the latest updates to Gather, including improvements on image rendering and a bunch of bug fixes the team wrapped up for the start of the new year!

We’ve got a new rendering engine that’s making movements in Gather super smooth, plus a variety of mobile updates and bug fixes.

Spread holiday cheer throughout your virtual office with new decorations and outfits. Only here until the snow melts!

The Information Board now supports pinned messages and real-time messages, so you can inform event guests of updates right away.

Over the past year, "the Metaverse" has become a hot topic, with companies like Facebook, Roblox, and Epic Games now citing it as their end goal, or Microsoft making it a key strategic objective. However, missing from recent discussions about the Metaverse is how it will actually be good for people—why should we, as a society, care about the Metaverse?

Learn all about the latest updates to Gather, including embeddable object links, a new way to create events, updates to emotes, and more!

Learn about our new video volume sliders (great for quieting loud talkers!) and a few other bug fixes.

Space Moderators and Owners can now update the pinned message on the Information Board, in addition to adding links.

Transform your digital office into a memorable Monster Mash! From ghosts and skeletons to pumpkins and hay bales, you’ll fall in love with new ways to customize your Space.

Give your guests a way to always access the most important information about your virtual event.

Make virtual team meetings more fun! New designs can help you create dedicated Rooms for different types of calls.

Running our largest load test to date, a story.