Write a persuasive memo in response to this situation. Keep in mind that some of the language in this scenario is not appropriate for effective business communication, and that part of your job is to rewrite it so that it reads more persuasively. Since you will need to change your readers mind, use the indirect method of organizing your memo.

You are an analyst at GFI International, a data analytics startup. Your company employs around 50 people who work from home around the U.S. and Canada, and since the start of the pandemic, your company has placed an emphasis on scheduling frequent team building exercisesin lieu of the standard face-to-face interaction associated with a traditional office environment. In 2020, the first year of the pandemic, the exercises began as mandatory Zoom activities, but as quarantines lifted, your companys CEO began scheduling quarterly all hands on deck gettogethers in locales such as Disney in the winter months and the Rocky Mountainsin the summer.

The CEO firmly believes that these activities away from the workplace help foster creativity and collaboration: when employees who work remotely can interact in person, these bonding rituals become all the more important. Additionally, these weekend trips are essentially already paid for because the company pays no rent on office space.

However, you and a growing number of your remote co-workers have become quietly resentful and sometimes angry about being forced to take four weekends per year away from home to travel to these mandatory team building events. Some of your colleagues, particularly Kirsten Flagstad, believe that work relationships should stay professional and courteous and that the idea of forcing artificial friendships on staff pushes personal boundaries too far. In the end, these coworkers would rather focus their work efforts on maintaining their privacy and earning a living.

Everyone in the company remembers when a hiking trip to Grand Targhee Resort in Wyoming went totally off the rails when half the company was left behind on a trail by a faster group; the aftermath of bruised egos and resentful feelings was significant. And some staff also feel that if they complain about these remote events that they will be taking the professional risk of being perceived as someone who is not a team player, so they are afraid to speak up.

You know that the CEO is committed to this idea and is resistant to changing it. However, you find yourself personally agreeing with your co-workers more and more after enduring yet another long, draining quarterly event. You believe that the company should still schedule them but make them optional. However, it will be almost impossible to change the companys position without any hard data to suggest that the change will benefit the organization.

Your task: write an internal company memo to Pat Ejstes, the CEO of GFI International, requesting a Zoom meeting to discuss your concerns. In the end, you hope that the meeting will end with the CEO agreeing to conduct a poll of the staff to gauge interest in your proposal. Make sure your memo follows these basic formatting and content-related features.

It should: Fit on one single-space page. Include a correctly-formatted memo heading. Focus only on the important information, leaving out distracting details. Use the indirect organizational method for persuading your reader, as well as the basic persuasive plan that we discussed in class.