[pps43]

At work I have scheduled meetings with no agenda. If we have nothing to talk, it's a short meeting. But it turns out that there's almost always something worth discussing. Without such scheduled meetings people might not think it's worth initiating a call or sending an IM and potentially interrupting someone's flow.

At home we FaceTime people we normally drink beer together and do it remotely. Two or three families in a videochat. We even attended an all-remote wedding.

[shinryuu]

I recently started working remotely for a Swedish company.

There has always been a tradition of taking a short break without agenda in Sweden. (non-work related is fine too).

Now that it is remote, its simply done in a video chat and it works equally well.

[war1025]

> At work I have scheduled meetings with no agenda.

That's a really good idea.

My version of this is to just suggest a call for very minor things and then try to toss in a good bit of small talk since we're on the call anyway.