I have been on a couple of remote/distributed teams and a common concern is that one misses out on the watercooler/hallway discussions happening between the emp

I have been on a couple of remote/distributed teams and a common concern is that one misses out on the watercooler/hallway discussions happening between the employees. We have usually gotten around this by saying - "hey , let us take this discussion over slack and may be XXX would have some good ideas to discuss".