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Agree ground rules for a hybrid or remote team

Half the team's at home, half in the office, and meetings are a mess. Get a one-page team agreement covering meetings, messages, office days and response times.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

The prompt · ChatGPT

Help me draft ground rules for our hybrid or remote team.

The team: [size, roles, where people work]
Tools we use: [e.g. Teams, Slack, email]
What's going wrong: [e.g. missed decisions, out-of-hours messages]
Office days: [pattern, if any]

Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. A one-page draft team agreement: meetings, decisions, messages and response times, office days, focus time and out of hours.
2. A 30-minute meeting plan to agree it as a team.
3. Three questions to ask the team before finalising.
4. A review date and how to check it's working.

Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, dates or results. UK English.

Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.

A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. size, roles, where people work: a short note you already have. e.g. Teams, Slack, email: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

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