After an incredible afternoon of learning from HR and Talent leaders in the tech ecosystem, the teams from Glynn Capital, IVP, Menlo Ventures, and Sapphire Ventures summarized the takeaways from our Future of Work Summit to help continue the conversation about how we can best support and empower employees now and in the future.
The way we work today looks very different from how we've worked in the past. We're no longer working 9-to-5 or delineating between in or out of the office. Today's workers are always-on and available anywhere. They work better, faster, more efficiently, and in a more distributed way. Advancements in technology have extended the boundaries of where we work and how work gets done. It's up to HR leaders to help meet employees where they are and to support them in doing their best work.
The future of work will be all about people. That's why Glynn Capital, IVP, Menlo Ventures, and Sapphire Ventures recently hosted a Future of Work Summit. We invited dozens of experts including CEOs, HR, and People Leaders from technology startups and public companies for a conversation about how we think about and engage in work across the startup ecosystem.
Here are some of the key themes explored at our second annual Future of Work Summit:
Benefits Need to Adapt to the Modern Workforce
Perhaps the most commonly cited challenge for HR leaders is building benefits packages that extend beyond standard benefits (health, dental, vision). With the line between work and personal life now increasingly blurry, companies who design new, nontraditional benefits can differentiate themselves.
Panelists emphasized that benefit leaders should consider including tuition and debt consolidation benefits, flexible work policies, and family and dependent care options to better serve the needs of their employees. Each program should be evaluated within the context of usage and productivity, so that every dollar spent enables a more fulfilled and supported employee base.
Participants shared ideas on adding new benefits without blowing up the budget. These included mental health and therapy options provided by companies like Lyra Health and others. Some companies focused on physical fitness, providing stipends to cover gym memberships or massages through platforms like Gympass. Others mentioned solutions focused on financial health. SoFi can help employees consolidate student loan debt, while others specialize in investing. Additionally, some employers have expanded beyond the traditional relocation bonus to offer services to help employees find housing, which is particularly challenging in costly housing markets like San Francisco.
Creating Community Across a Distributed Workforce is Critical for Retention and Promotion
Our summit participants reported that 30% 60% of their employees work from home or across distributed offices. It can be challenging to manage a diversity of working styles and needs outside of the traditional office walls.
In today's global, connected workforce, companies must understand and support cultural differences across geographies. And sometimes, unique opportunities for connection will arise: one company realized that weekly code reviews provided an opportunity for international employees to practice their English and build relationships with peers across offices.
To create a culture of inclusion, employees must feel connected to an organization. This can be particularly challenging for organizations with remote workers in different countries. Summit attendees agreed that bringing remote employees to headquarters for an extended onboarding process or Quarterly Business Reviews can build lasting community and connections between remote and HQ-based colleagues. Another suggestion was to carry forward traditions that everyone can enjoy regardless of where their desks reside. Having shared traditions can make it easier to spark conversations and build connections. One company encouraged each employee to use a personal coffee/tea mug for work as a way to help break the ice, build culture, and also create a unique talking point.
Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Must Have a Dedicated Leader
According to a report by Weber Shandwick, 27% of Chief Diversity Officers said they face a challenge making the business case for diversity and inclusion. The good news is that the majority of top leaders do understand how critical these efforts are but many are still figuring out the best approach.
Participants agreed that leaving inclusion as a to-do item is not enough. What does work is having a dedicated team member that is focused on driving inclusion across the organization. Ideally, the CEO and Chief Diversity Officer are one in the same, or in larger organizations very closely aligned. Additionally, companies can improve the effectiveness of their efforts by engaging employees early to get buy-in and participation from day one.
Data can also inform decisions and help companies create conditions to attract talented workers and help them thrive in their new jobs. Platforms like Eightfold.ai leverage artificial intelligence and candidate masking to identify candidates that are most likely to be successful at an organization and then help employers define career paths for them once they are hired to drive motivation and retention.
Becoming a More Compassionate Company Takes Care
More than 1 in 5 Americans suffer annually from a mental health condition such as anxiety or depression, according to a 2016 study by SAMHSA. More companies are seeking to improve their mental health benefits for employees, but these resources can be underutilized if a company's culture isn't obviously aligned or if mental health is a taboo topic. Our panelists suggested that having a champion at the company creates better conversations around mental health. They
Most recent headlines
06/10/2025
France T l visions, France's leading broadcaster, has received the 2025 EBU ...
04/09/2025
Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE), in collaboration with Dalet, has been a...
30/08/2025
WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission has adopted its FY 2025 Regulatory Fees Order that establishes the regulatory fee rates for the broadcast stati...
29/08/2025
Australian Red Cross and SBS launch training to help workplaces in the fight aga...
29/08/2025
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Sp...
29/08/2025
L3Harris Technologies has concentrated decades of expertise across the entire enterprise to develop affordable and reliable best-of-breed solutions to rapidly c...
29/08/2025
BURBANK, Calif. The CW Network and the Pac-12 Conference have announced a new media rights deal that will extend their broadcast partnership beginning with the ...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK Gracenote has released a new analysis of its global video dataset showing that the number of FAST channels grew nearly 14% from Q1 2025 and 76% since 2...
29/08/2025
SAN JOSE, Calif. Harmonic has announced a series of improvements to its live sports streaming solution that the company said will improve fan engagement, protec...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES Fox Corp. and YouTube TV last night announced a renewal of the full portfolio of Fox networks, including Fox News Channel, Fox Business...
29/08/2025
Budapest, Hungary, August 2025 - The integration of Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) with Lightware's Taurus universal matrix switchers delivers a new level of f...
29/08/2025
Frequency, the engine behind many of the world's best-known streaming television channels, today announced it will launch Studio Live, a next-generation uni...
29/08/2025
In an era when AI and cyber resilience are essential, Scality will mark the 10th anniversary of Scality Day on October 16, 2025 in Paris. This flagship global e...
29/08/2025
Disguise's In-House Creative and Technical Teams Pre-Visualised, Programmed and Delivered Content for the Experience, All Powered by EX 3+
Technology solu...
29/08/2025
Disguise will be demonstrating the latest workflows for TV, film and live events on a number of partner booths at the show
Disguise, the industry-leading tech...
29/08/2025
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Accedo will showcase Accedo Compose, its AI agent-powered modular orchestration layer that assists streaming providers in transitioning client...
29/08/2025
LOS ANGELES Cineverse has announced that it is working with Xperi to bring four of its streaming channels to automobiles for the first time as part of the DTS A...
29/08/2025
DALLAS & ATLANTA Gray Media has announced an agreement with the sports streaming service Victory+ to simulcast 17 Dallas Stars NHL games in 15 television market...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK AND CULVER CITY Comcast NBCUniversal and Amazon have announced new and extended distribution agreements that will expand the content available on their...
29/08/2025
FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. RED Digital Cinema will feature its Cine-Broadcast Module supporting live broadcast workflows during IBC2025, Sept. 12-15, at the RAI Ams...
29/08/2025
29 Aug 2025
Kyivstar Rings Opening Bell at Nasdaq Marking Landmark Listing and ...
29/08/2025
More than half of all NFL games live on Sky for the first timeFriday 29 August 2025
Sky Sports has announced a new three-year deal with the NFL, extending its ...
29/08/2025
Back to All News
RIV4LRIES: The Trailer of the New Series With Samuele Carrino ...
29/08/2025
Get ready for an inspiring and emotional insight into the world of competitive Irish dancing with My Story: Tomi Champion of the World airing on RT 2 this monda...
29/08/2025
RT has today announced that David McCullagh is to be the new presenter of RT Radio 1's flagship Today programme, which airs every weekday at 10am, replaci...
28/08/2025
By Kristin Feeley, Director, Documentary Film & Artist Programs
If you want to tell untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got ...
28/08/2025
Directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, Sundance Institute-supported Amer...
28/08/2025
Corridos have been a cornerstone of M sica Mexicana for generations, telling stories rooted in everyday life. Now, a new chapter is taking shape: motivational c...
28/08/2025
Los corridos han sido un pilar de la M sica Mexicana durante generaciones, contando historias enraizadas en la vida cotidiana. Ahora, un nuevo cap tulo est tom...
28/08/2025
Earlier this month, we promised our Verano Forever party would bring the heat, a...
28/08/2025
L3Harris will provide the Polish F-16V fleet with the Viper Shield electronic warfare system as part of an upgrade program....
28/08/2025
Bilbao, August 26, 2025 - AgileTV, an international television and video technol...
28/08/2025
Ken Wilkinson is an Emmy Awards nominated New York audio engineer who specialises in production sound mixing for film, commercial, episodic and documentary work...
28/08/2025
NEW YORK FuboTV today announced that it will launch Fubo Sports, a skinny bundle that focuses on sports with a subscription price of $56 monthly....
28/08/2025
NEVADA City, Calif. At IBC2025, Sept. 12-15 at the RAI Amsterdam, Telestream will debut its new Global Ingest strategy, introducing a next-generation ingest arc...
28/08/2025
Dr. Rhoda Bernard Releases Groundbreaking Debut Book on Accessible Arts Educatio...
28/08/2025
TAG Video Systems, the leader in software-based IP end-to-end workflow monitoring, deep probing, and real-time visualization, has named Oliver Gappa as Sales Di...
28/08/2025
AI-based voice enhancement will be among a series of innovations making their IBC 2025 debut on the DHD stand B46 in Hall 8 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Cent...
28/08/2025
Telef nica Servicios Audiovisuales (TSA), the leading system integrator and service provider in the media sector in Spain, with the support of Appear, the globa...
28/08/2025
To fully immerse sailing fans in the world's biggest offshore yacht race, production company, Optical Media turned to LiveU's On-site Production solutio...
28/08/2025
Working with Calrec on its most recent overhaul, radio and television broadcaster, WNED has migrated to a fully IP infrastructure with multiple Type R consoles,...
28/08/2025
Cleeng, the Subscriber Retention Management (SRM ) inventor, has unveiled Cleeng Pro, the first-ever direct-to-consumer (D2C) subscription management platform t...
28/08/2025
Zixi, the industry leader in live broadcast-quality video over IP, today announced that French media distribution platform OKAST has selected Zixi to enable rel...
28/08/2025
Solution offers a streamlined, speaker-free architecture to optimize integration with premium external loudspeakers and advanced loudness metering
Nixer Pro Au...
28/08/2025
Cinegy, the premier provider of software-defined television technology, has announced a strategic partnership with Vision One Touch Film Production Services L.L...
28/08/2025
Telestream, a global leader in media workflow technologies, will debut its new Global Ingest strategy at IBC2025, introducing a next-generation ingest architect...
28/08/2025
Tier 1 operator selects Broadpeak to power high-performance, unified CDN solution across Norway, Sweden and Finland
Broadpeak, a leader in streaming and moneti...
28/08/2025
Leading video software provider, Synamedia, today announced that 24 Frames Digital, one of India's leading live event streaming service providers, has chose...
28/08/2025
Meet VisualOn at IBC2025: See What's Next in AI-Powered Video Streaming Join VisualOn at IBC2025 and discover how our AI-driven Optimizer and advanced media...
After an incredible afternoon of learning from HR and Talent leaders in the tech ecosystem, the teams from Glynn Capital, IVP, Menlo Ventures, and Sapphire Ventures summarized the takeaways from our Future of Work Summit to help continue the conversation about how we can best support and empower employees now and in the future.
