| She's not counting those meetings because she doesn't have them. Nor a whole lot of other types of meetings, for that matter: > on the remote teams I’ve been on, the the whole team has adopted a working style where all important team communication happens over Slack / video calls / email. In other words, you're thinking of the wrong context, which is impressive since the entire article explains that different context. The part you quote is in response to: > How do you have idle/watercooler discussions? We are already talking about a situation without chats at the watercooler. And when she says 1:1, she refers to her earlier explanation: > One pattern that has been incredibly valuable [to learn from my colleagues remotely] is – meet with $person (on my team) 1:1 every week for months/years and get advice from them about whatever I’m currently working on. One important thing to me in this kind of relationship is that the person be continuously invested/engaged in my work – it’s way more useful to get advice from someone who’s familiar with everything I’ve been doing for the last year than from someone just swooping in with their thoughts. While she explains this in the context of learning from colleagues, it is also a coping mechanism for staying in the loop despite not having normal meetings. Also, maybe it's me, but a 1:1 meeting is usually one where "real work" gets done. Ignoring that, she clearly has more than enough time for long, uninterrupted stretches of work. |