Katmai for Hybrid Teams
Hybrid's dirty secret is that it quietly creates two companies: the one in the room and the one in the grid. The office crowd gets the hallway conversations, the visibility, the after-meeting decisions; the remote crowd gets a rectangle. Every hybrid org knows the drift, and most fight it with policy. The structural fix is simpler: one office everyone is actually in. Katmai is virtual office software that feels real, and for hybrid teams it's the equalizing layer.
The two-tier problem, solved structurally
Everyone is present the same way. In Katmai, in-office and remote employees occupy the same photorealistic space with the same real video presence. Nobody is a dial-in; nobody is furniture on a screen at the end of a conference table. The playing field isn't leveled by etiquette, it's leveled by architecture.
The hallway moves online, where everyone has one. The conversations that decide things, before the meeting, after the meeting, walking past a desk, happen in the shared office where the remote half can actually be walked past. The proximity advantage stops compounding in one direction.
Coordination stops being a spreadsheet. Who's in today, who's reachable, who's heads-down: visible at a glance in the office, instead of reconstructed from calendars and Slack statuses. Anchor days get an actual anchor.
How hybrid teams run it
- Core presence hours ("we're all in the office 10 to 1") beat all-day mandates; presence with boundaries feels like an office, not monitoring.
- On-site people join too, from their desks; the physical office becomes one more place people log in from, and mixed meetings stop having a home-team.
- Meetings default to the office: walk in together or send a guest link that opens in a browser, no account, no download, no headset.
- New hires start in the shared office regardless of geography, so week one feels identical whether they're two floors or two time zones away.
Setup is done for you
Book a demo, then Katmai's team runs a configuration meeting, builds your spaces, and adds everyone, then onboarding sessions. Browser-based, nothing to install, one plan with every feature, built for teams of roughly 10+. Machine specs are published in the system requirements.
FAQ
How does Katmai fix hybrid's two-tier problem?
By giving in-person and remote employees the same presence in the same office: everyone appears with real video in shared photorealistic space, so visibility and spontaneity stop belonging only to whoever's in the building.
Do in-office employees use Katmai too?
Yes; that's the point. On-site people join from their desks, making the virtual office the single shared layer rather than a remote-only accommodation.
Does Katmai replace our physical office?
It doesn't have to; it federates it. Many hybrid companies keep space and run Katmai as the always-on layer everyone shares; some later shrink their footprint once the shared office carries the load.
What does a hybrid rollout look like?
Demo, then a configuration meeting where Katmai's team builds spaces and adds your team, then core presence hours and moving two or three rituals in. Most hybrid teams are running within a week.