Working at Coinbase, the large cryptocurrency exchange, Amy Yin recognized that the world was fast moving toward a distributed, flexible remote workplace. As this quickly happens, there’s a dire need to make the lives of both employees and managers easier.
Yin left her good job at Coinbase to prove her thesis by focusing on building an office reservation and scheduling tool specifically designed with hybrid remote offices in mind. She started OfficeTogether, a company that offers a software platform to enhance the experience of remote workers. The product also makes the lives of human resources and management easier and more productive.
OfficeTogether strives to make it easy for a business to become a hybrid-office company by creating a cool scheduling and capacity management software that can integrate your physical space with the Slack, Google Calendar, Okta and other platforms.
An important feature for workers is that you can check the app to see who will be in the office on any given day. If the people you need to collaborate with aren’t scheduled, then it may not make sense to spend three hours commuting back and forth to the office just to go on Zoom calls, which could just be done at home. It could also help employees from showing up to an office that is already at capacity, or when a big, noisy and rambunctious sales meeting is scheduled to take place.
Yin is focused on productively helping teams plan their time in office together.