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Best would be to have a quarterly or so meet up of the team. A lot of teams are geographical distributed anyway. Fly to a location for a long weekend with acti
by randomopining 6y ago
Best would be to have a quarterly or so meet up of the team. A lot of teams are geographical distributed anyway.
Fly to a location for a long weekend with activities some team building, get a big hotel block.
That would cost less than a seat in many of these nyc offices.
- j4yav 6y agoFor sure. This was how we did it at GitLab, and it was the perfect balance.
- noweekendplz 6y agoYes but that long weekend should happen between Monday and Friday.
- ghaff 6y agoDefinitely. I even resent events (whether team meetings or conferences) that force me to travel on Sunday. I sometimes choose to extend a work trip over a weekend but it's my choice. I do agree with the basic point. The team I work with is scattered across about 10 timezones. On a given day I'm probably talking with some combination of remote people and people normally in about 5 different offices. As someone who has been remote, the main pain point over the past year has been the lack of my usual travel to many events as well as team off-sites (which usually aren't primarily fun and games but do involve socializing). I normally travel about 1/3 of the year.
- dnndev 6y agoAssuming the wife and kids will be paid for this sounds amazing. Otherwise it’s daddy or mommy taking a vacation without the family and that never goes well.
- randomopining 6y agoHaha why? If you wife/kids care about like 4-5 days that's kinda ridic.
- ghaff 6y agoMy weekends are not work time. I do sometimes end up at events/associated travel that spans weekends in which case I take unofficial comp time. But if you, as employer, deliberately schedules a team get-together over a weekend because "it will be fun," you are an asshole.