Opinion

March 2, 2022

What Tinder can teach us about building a digital office

Virtual offices try to recreate the office as it exists in the real-world. A look at Tinder shows us why this is the wrong approach.


Tariq Rauf

4 min read

Qatalog

As the pandemic forced vast swathes of the workforce to work from home, millions of people had to experience their whole work life through a computer screen. But some new platforms sprung up trying to replicate the office in digital form. They’ve even raised tens of millions from VCs. 

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