Donut is a team engagement and community building tool to facilitate easy and automated scheduling of meetups between colleagues across different departments. It promotes random pairings to encourage team members to connect, fostering a stronger sense of community, whether in remote, hybrid, or onsite work environments. Donut is changing the way companies onboard, engage, and retain their talent.

Donut offers several benefits for enhancing team alignment and engagement:

• It easily integrates with Slack to facilitate direct messaging between team members, thereby speeding up communication and alignment.
• Offers a variety of customizable templates to suit different introduction needs, group sizes, and frequencies, enabling tailored interactions.
• Automatically makes introductions based on HRIS data like role and location, fostering relevant connections and aligning introductions with business goals.
• It adds interactive elements like stats and feedback to maintain motivation and engagement within teams.
• Streamlines the onboarding process with scheduled messages, polls, and task assignments, ensuring new hires receive all necessary information and touchpoints.
• Enables faster ramp-up for new hires by connecting them to a relevant network of colleagues and mentors, giving them an instant sense of belonging and support.
• Offers robust reporting to optimize the onboarding experience by tracking progress and generating summaries
• The Watercooler feature encourages casual, creative conversations among team members, helping break down barriers and foster company culture.
• Automated celebrations for personal milestones like birthdays and work anniversaries, aiding in increasing team morale and a sense of community.
• Compatible with multiple HRIS tools, making data import seamless and connection facilitation strategic.
• Offers icebreaker topics in Zoom meetings to encourage engagement and smooth conversation flow.

Read more about Donut and compare it with other matchmaking tools in our blog: The 5 best community matchmaking tools