Too many companies are wasting resources on navigating return-to-office strategies, instead of investing in employees and improving their ways of working. Anu Bharadwaj, Chief Operating Officer at $70+ Billion company Atlassian, believes building connection and engagement in a distributed world is our growth and retention, and will share the playbook in this opening keynote.

1. Building connection in
a distributed world
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5. TEAM ANYWHERE

6. Team Anywhere distribution
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7. Team Anywhere distribution
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8. Team Anywhere distribution
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9. Team Anywhere distribution
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11. SHARED PURPOSE
Building Connection
SHARED
COMMUNITY
SHARED
EXPERIENCES

12. SHARED PURPOSE
Building Connection
SHARED
COMMUNITY
SHARED
EXPERIENCES

13. Shared Experiences
4 hour timezone
overlap

14. 4 HOUR HALOS

15. Shared Experiences
4 hour timezone
overlap
Async where
possible

16. SYNCHRONOUS
ASYNC WHERE POSSIBLE

17. Shared Experiences
4 hour timezone
overlap
Prioritize fun
together
Async where
possible
Gather with
purpose
Curated social
experiences Experiential of
fi
ces

18. EXPERIENTIAL OFFICES

19. SHARED PURPOSE
Building Connection
SHARED
COMMUNITY
SHARED
EXPERIENCES

20. 🤓
😎
😎
😎
Shared Purpose

21. WRITTEN CULTURE, SHARED BROADLY

22. SHARED UNDERSTANDING

23. SHARED PURPOSE
Building Connection
SHARED
COMMUNITY
SHARED
EXPERIENCES

24. SHARED COMMUNITY
Open company, no bullshit

25. OPEN BY DEFAULT

26. SHARED COMMUNITY ON CONFLUENCE

27. SHARED PURPOSE
Building Connection
SHARED
COMMUNITY
SHARED
EXPERIENCES

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25%
LIVE 2+ HRS FROM
AN OFFICE
50%
NEW HIRES 2+ HRS
FROM AN OFFICE
Team Anywhere

29. TEAM ANYWHERE