For Employees
Work shouldn't feel this lonely.
You like the job. The team is fine. The mission is fine. The calendar is full. And somehow the day still ends with you wondering if you actually know anyone you work with.
The work was never the hard part. The people were always supposed to be the good part.
Used by teams at 2,000+ companies
The quiet ways a workday gets lonely
Hybrid schedules. Calendars that never line up. A team chat that moves too fast to feel personal. The job isn't harder than it used to be. The connections are just thinner.
You eat at your desk
The mute icon stays on through lunch. The day fills with calls and tickets, none of them with anyone you’d call a friend. By six, you’ve spoken to a hundred people and known none of them.
Half the names in standup are just squares on a screen
You see them every day. You couldn’t tell anyone what they’re actually working on, or what they did before this job, or whether they’d laugh if you sent the meme.
Asking for help feels like a favour
You needed five minutes from the engineer in the next time zone. You spent twenty minutes writing the perfect Slack message instead, because cold-DMing a stranger never gets easier.
You like the work. You’re not sure you like the place
The job is fine. The mission lands. But the place doesn’t feel like yours yet, and you keep wondering if the next role would be the one where it does.
You're not asking for much. Just a couple of people who feel like coworkers and not contacts.
We've watched what changes when work gets a little less lonely
The people who love their jobs longer aren't the ones with the best comp. They're the ones with one or two real friends at work, and a handful of names they can call when something blows up.
CoffeePals is what helps that happen on purpose, inside the tools you already use, without making it weird.
2,000+
workplaces
Used at
Microsoft, Harvard, Autodesk, Red Bull
SOC 2
compliant
How it works
Three small things, on repeat.
01
Get paired with someone you’d never have found
CoffeePals introduces you to a coworker each week or two, inside Microsoft Teams or Slack. Someone on another team. Another floor. Another timezone. Someone with a story you don’t know yet.
02
Show up. Talk. That’s the whole ask
Fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes. A built-in prompt to get past the weather. No agenda. No deliverable. The conversation is the point.
03
Watch your map of the company fill in
A few months in, you know who to call when something breaks. Whose project to ask about. Where to find someone who’ll laugh with you about Tuesday. Work feels smaller. The week feels easier.
What changes
A workday that has people in it again.
76%
of employees say a strong friendship at work makes them more likely to stay
Workhuman
7×
more likely to be fully engaged at work when employees have a best friend there
Gallup
2,000+
workplaces using CoffeePals to make their teams feel like a team again
CoffeePals
You stop dreading the all-hands. You stop dreading the next project. The job stops feeling like a place you go, and starts feeling like a place with people in it.
What people say after a few months of pairings
“CoffeePals has made getting to know each other easy and helped colleagues form new relationships across teams. These casual breaks have been a hit with everyone from our newest hires to our leadership team.”
“As an HR consultant, CoffeePals has been a huge success among clients. It has helped remote employees to connect informally and completely transformed how they interact with each other.”
What if Monday started with someone you actually wanted to talk to?
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