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One Company.
Many Strangers.

Hybrid work has displaced the casual office chat. Departments become silos, collaboration is limited to your own bubble. Workdate brings people together who would otherwise never meet.

These companies are already using Workdate Connect:
ergo fresenius bayer metro
henkel helsana targobank wdr

Does This Sound Familiar?

Departments as Silos

Marketing doesn't know anyone from IT. Sales has never spoken with the product team. Everyone works in their own bubble – and doesn't even notice it.

The Water Cooler Chat is Dead

In home offices, there's no coffee machine moment. The informal exchanges that once happened naturally simply don't happen anymore.

Sense of Belonging Declines

When employees only know their direct team, they feel less and less connected to the company. Culture becomes invisible – and eventually irrelevant.

Everything Takes Longer

When nobody knows the right contacts in other areas, even simple coordinations become tedious processes.

Silos Cost More Than Just Morale

86%
of managers cite lack of collaboration as the main reason for workplace failures. Fierce Inc.
more likely that companies with a collaborative culture are rated as high performers. i4cp
-59%
less turnover in well-connected teams compared to isolated teams. Gallup

Workdate Turns Strangers into Colleagues

1

Choose Your Format

Coffee Roulette, Lunch Date, Walk & Talk, or After-Work – you choose the format that fits your culture.

2

Connect Strategically

Workdate automatically matches across teams, locations, and hierarchies – following your rules or deliberately random.

3

Watch Your Network Grow

You measure participation, reach, and feedback – and see how isolated teams become a real network.

Case Study · Helsana

How Networking Became Part of Helsana's Corporate Culture

Swiss insurance company Helsana has been using Workdate for over 10 years – gradually integrating the platform as a core part of their corporate culture. What started as Coffee Roulette has become a comprehensive ecosystem: lunches, coffee breaks, Women's Network, Workdate for Parents, table football – across three languages and five locations.

10+
Years in Use
500+
Participants
6.000+
Connections Made
95%
Recommendation Rate

How Companies Use Workdate Connect

Use Case

Coffee & Lunch Roulette

The classic: Employees from different departments meet regularly for informal exchanges – automatically organized.

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Health & Wellbeing

Walk & Talk, running groups, table tennis matches – networking and health promotion in one format.

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Event Speed-Dating

Summer party, Christmas party, company anniversary – Workdate uses the moment when everyone is on-site for quick speed-dating rounds.

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Connect Locations

Berlin meets Munich, Hamburg meets Vienna – Workdate connects locations that otherwise only know each other from the organizational chart.

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Department Networking

HR internally, IT among themselves, or Marketing meets Sales – Workdate brings departments closer that should be better aligned.

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Campus Networking

Multiple companies, one campus – Workdate brings employees from different companies together over coffee or lunch.

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Culture is not built
in the intranet

Let us show you in 30 minutes how Workdate transforms isolated teams into a real network.

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