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It's a great setup. We get remote workers to come into the Chicago every once in a while for a few days or a week. Good boost of energy, but doesn't need to hap
by dhh 15y ago
It's a great setup. We get remote workers to come into the Chicago every once in a while for a few days or a week. Good boost of energy, but doesn't need to happen more often than once every few months.
- tibbon 15y agoFor cultural and team building, have you experimented at all with having employees attend an event like SXSW or something even less work-related like PAX so that people can get to know each other personally better in something that is at best tangentially related to work? Or, does it seem to generally be a waste of capital and time that isn't worth it? I've personally experienced that I can really get to know people when spending an entire week hanging out with them in this manner, and that it seems to have very positive impacts on efficiency of my later interaction with them.
- dhh 15y agoYeah, we generally use RailsConf as a team-building exercise. Didn't get much out of SXSW, though. Liked meeting up somewhere just the team better.
- mhartl 15y agoDo they all come in at once, or one at a time? The former seems a lot harder to coordinate.
- cpeterso 15y agoMozilla has all-hands "work weeks" a couple times a year. The location changes each time, so employees can visit different cities and offices.