Striking a Balance: Blending Virtual and In-Person for Professional Growth and Connection
- Rae Louis
- Jun 18
- 3 min read
Dani signed her employment offer three years ago without ever stepping into an office. She onboarded via Zoom, pitched campaigns in Slack threads, and celebrated team wins with emoji reactions and check-ins. Everything about her early career felt efficient, but curiously, a little hollow.
“I was doing good work,” she recalls, “but it felt like no one actually knew me.”
It wasn’t until she joined a two-day in-person retreat that something shifted.
