[fooblat]

How does your team use it and how would you rate it?

My CEO wanted to introduce Gather with the idea that everyone would be in it working all day. He wanted to be able to "stroll by" whenever to see what people are up to. The team unanimous voted against this so we didn't get it.

[CodeBeater]

All in all it was all a very incidental experience. Our CTO came out of the blue showing this thing, he spent an afternoon designing a floor flor the developers that mimics the IRL office.

At the beginning it all felt gimmicky and felt like the novelty factor would wear off quite quickly, but there was this one specific instance that made it "click" in everyone's head, and it happened right at the end of a regular meeting.

We finished the discussion and most attendants quickly dispersed, some people were still at the table trying to fix a bug, and we needed some input from this one specific person to do so. So someone just strolled to where that person was, and asked him to come to the table. It all felt very natural, and the way we were able to quickly get the information we needed without having to awkwardly drag a bunch of people into a Google Meet was just magical.

Today we use it everyday, full time, it all feels very natural and we don't really think about it, because it works so well.

Recently the CTO also opened a "floor" (I.E another Gather instance entirely) for the sales and marketing team (whose headcount in the hundreds) and linked both "floors" using their "portal" feature. Awesome!

[ge96]

Not who you asked but as a data point.

I worked at an org ($30B) and it was used for happy hours (as in drinking if you wanted) in the couple of related teams. Since we've been working from home since 2020. It worked alright, some groups would form but it's like real life, if you're more social more 'gather' around you.