Let’s just say that more than a few hot-dish recipes have been swapped in the #minnesota channel. There are even off-shoot channels for cities or states where clusters of “Remote-lassians” live. Group chat is an ideal way for distributed teams to stay in touch, but who says you have to keep it strictly business? Pre-pandemic, Atlassian set up a channel in Slack called #social-remote where we remote workers (which is now pretty much all of us), talk about what we had for lunch, compare notes on standing desks, share articles related to remote work, and generally discuss anything but the projects we’re working on. Tools required: Slack, Teams, or other group chat app Type: asynchronous, just for fun, on the regular Virtual coffee chats and virtual happy hours are fun variations on this activity. Only have 15-30 minutes to spare? No worries. Team members can even expense up to $25 so they can join from their favorite cafe, order delivery, or cook up a little something special at home (because, real talk: heating up leftovers gets old). Once a month, the team links up via video conferencing over lunchtime. This one comes from the engineering team that built the Trello app for Android.
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