alt Hacker NewsFor fully remote workers, that few minutes chat before the meeting starts is one of the few opportunities for unstructured chat with their colleagues
For fully remote workers, that few minutes chat before the meeting starts is one of the few opportunities for unstructured chat with their colleagues
I think unstructured chat with colleagues is undervalued, though I also respect people who want no part of it.
At one place where we were remote, we had a morning daily (I don't care to argue the usefulness of dailies, though).
When I joined as an IC, I added an emphatically-optional 15 minute "coffee chat" meeting preceding it on the same video chat link. Most people pretty consistently joined at some point before the start of the daily. Sometimes chat was about work, most often, it was just social.
IMO, it was worth it. It was low friction because it was next to a scheduled meeting at a time where a morning beverage was reasonable, and people felt no pressure to join.