We had watercooler meetings some at remote companies I worked at, but yeah they usually don't really work. One problem is that the stream always attenuates to o

We had watercooler meetings some at remote companies I worked at, but yeah they usually don't really work. One problem is that the stream always attenuates to one person (which is good in normal meetings to not pick up too much random background noise), but it completely kills spontaneity. Also, there are always people with horrendous mic quality or background noise. As a result 1:1s tend to work much better technically for socializing, but it of course doesn't bring the group vibe. The idea in the article sounds really nice! Unfortunately does not really scale to larger companies than maybe 5-10 people.