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Way back (talking multiple decades) on my first day at $JOB, my manager took me on a walk and introduced me to about 30 other engineers across multiple teams.
by foobarian 3y ago
Way back (talking multiple decades) on my first day at $JOB, my manager took me on a walk and introduced me to about 30 other engineers across multiple teams. A bit of smalltalk and bit of shop talk with each one. I still connect to 15 out of those individuals even today. I wish there was a way to replicate that for the remotes these days, because I felt that was pretty awesome.
- no_wizard 3y agoThere are, like remote happy hours, travel blocks, team get togethers etc. These are solved / solvable issues. Socialization at work can be facilitated in a myriad of ways, even remotely. Games are popular way of doing it, virtual happy hours, team building activities etc.
- ghaff 3y agoThere are. I admit to finding them annoying for the most part and I usually avoid.
- photonbeam 3y agoRemote happy hours are hard because everyone is at the same audio volume /distance. I wish I could emulate walking-over-there on zoom
- no_wizard 3y agoyou could use fluid rooms in Zoom, lets you go in and out to talk to someone There needs to be a normalization of "peeling off" the main chat room