Remote work needs "common areas" where people can voluntarily just join and leave their camera/mic on all the time. Like lurking in an IRC chat. This of course

Remote work needs "common areas" where people can voluntarily just join and leave their camera/mic on all the time. Like lurking in an IRC chat. This of course would be abused by employers ("why can't I see you at your desk 10 hours a day?") but it seems to me a way of encouraging the sort of water cooler encounters that being in an office provides.