[mr_tristan]

As a remote engineer these days, not sure a gaming session with my team is what I need on top of work. I do my own gaming, and have pretty different preferences from everyone else. We do physically get together 4x a year, which is honestly more then enough to develop strong social bonds.

One thing my company did for a while was a “random coffee chat”. You could opt in and get matched up with someone, and basically chat for 30 minutes about whatever once a month. This was awesome, because I actually met very different roles at the company, like sales engineers or the head of HR. Not exactly the “social time” of happy hour but almost more valuable

[codesnik]

I've pitched that idea for my part-remote company, because remote workers really left behind. I wonder, why just once a month?

[mr_tristan]

Honestly, I couldn't see it really working much more frequently with some functions and people spread out over timezones. It was common to not be able to meet up at for a week or two with some roles - sales would be traveling, too many issues, meetings. etc