Having regular check-ins with peers so we can see how everyone is doing. It allows us to lean on each other more as a team.

I lead a Growth Engineering team at Buffer. We've used Kona for the last six months, and I've found it very helpful for connecting us as a team. We've got a full spread from Australia to Europe to North America, so it's difficult for us to meet on the same call. Kona has been great as a way to check in and connect. We can read each other's status, react, and respond. It's nice that it's not about work. We do status updates and work together on project management tools, but Kona is where we can share how we do in our daily lives. That openness that Kona has created with our team and that vulnerability to share your feelings has been great for me as a manager. It's improved our one-on-ones, interactions, and culture as a team.

Our distributed team spans from Missouri to Nigeria, through to London and Copenhagen. Kona is helping us connect on a daily basis and support each other when life or work is not quite going the way we want it to go. It is a great way to share how we feel, embed transparency in the team and build trust, even though we're sitting thousands of kilometers away from each other. Kona allows everybody in the team to support or acknowledge someone else's updates and only takes 5 seconds every day (literally!) which is why it is widely adopted in the team. Kona participates to better mental health, inclusion, and belonging in our team. I can't think of not having Kona in any team I would work with!