Comment by sriku
4 years ago
One of the complaints about remote work at my company that I keep hearing (and also feel myself) is that our staff miss having "random" conversations. I quote random, because it isn't about the literal randomness, but kind of closer to "unstructured and unintended" conversations. We run an ideation-to-prototype event at the company and currently the teams are struggling with ideation that used to happen in such a "random" manner rather easily in person.
At my workplace, we have a few blocks of time scattered around the schedule for teammates to just jump in and code with other people. No agenda, no one is required to join. But a few always do, because it's so pleasant.