I cant speak for the others, but at my last job, the team got closer when the pandemics started and we went remote. The key was having a virtual "water cooler".

I cant speak for the others, but at my last job, the team got closer when the pandemics started and we went remote. The key was having a virtual "water cooler". We did that with Discord, anyone interested in chatting could just hang in a voice channel and people would casually join in at their own will.