28 Jan 2026 · 1 min
Podcast episode (Speak pr) hosted by Jim James discussing lessons from an organization that held over one million Microsoft Teams meetings. The host reflects on how missing workplace symbols, rituals, and physical culture in virtual work may contribute to fatigue and affect staff engagement, and offers communications/PR tools to help companies unlock value.
Hello, and welcome to this episode of Speak pr. My name is Jim James, and I'm here to share some thoughts and some tools that companies can use to unlock the value in their businesses through effective communications and public relations. And on this episode, we're going to talk about some of the learnings that have happened for the company that has held over 1 million Teams meetings online. And I'm also going to be thinking about the impact of symbols and how, when we're working from home and when we're in virtual places, the symbols and the culture and the rituals that we have in our offices and our workplaces are missing. And this may also, in my view, be adding to the sense of fatigue, because not only are we not surrounded by our colleagues, but we're not surrounded by the things and the places and the logos and the canteens that normally fuel a company culture.
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