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Connect with your colleagues, no matter where you are
Connect with your colleagues for virtual coffee, peer learning, birthday and work anniversary celebrations, DEI discussions, and more.We all need good relationships with our colleagues. Having genuine friendships with the people we work with makes us more efficient, 7 times more engaged, and can increase our happiness as much as a $100,000 raise [*].Donut has helped over 15,000 teams, including Okta, Betterment, Gitlab, Zapier, and InVision, make 6+ million connections among colleagues across different departments, offices, and continents.Donut can connect teams of all sizes across the organization in three ways: by suggesting in-person or virtual meetings, asynchronous chat, and fun birthday and work anniversary celebrations.Teams use Donut for many different purposes:  • Socializing + chatting: chat regularly in a channel, have virtual coffee meetings, CEO coffee lotteries, recognize birthdays and work anniversaries, and have lunch with colleagues  • Remote or hybrid employees: organize remote team lunches, regular Donut meetings, and cross-department introductions  • Learning: create peer mentorship programs, code review partners, and sales demo buddies  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) + Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): lead discussion groups on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and support employee resource groups  • New hires: connect new hires through onboarding buddies, new hire lunches, or job shadowingCreating a new Donut channel in Slack is easy. Browse its library of templates to discover new ways to use it, or create a custom channel with features that let you:✏️ Customize your group size, frequency, and introduction message❄️ Engage in conversations with virtual icebreaker prompts in channels or DMs🚰 Prompt discussion in Slack channels with Watercooler topics🎉 Personalize and celebrate employee birthdays and work anniversaries💬 Welcome new colleagues to your Donut channel(s)📆 Schedule meetings via Slack with Google Calendar and MS Outlook integrations🎦 Easily launch virtual meetups with Zoom, Google Meet, and MS Teams video integrations🛠 Introduce colleagues across groups (e.g., marketing to engineering) or launch a lottery🎯 Have fun getting to know your colleagues with interactive features like Selfie Contest, Compliments, Conversation Starters, and Favorite Things📊 Get detailed reports about the connections your team is makingFind out more about how teams use Donut to make connections and increase collaboration →If you need assistance, email us at support@donut.ai and we’ll be happy to help.[*]