[uxp100]

I’ve been working from home for 5 years, and I feel that my work social interactions are less than ever before. It was a mix of people in a room and people on the phone before, and I often would be irritated that I couldn’t hear some of the conversations between people who were in the room together. But as far as I can tell these side conversations have just vanished and now team meetings have become a series of public 1:1s.

So I think people are disengaged and you should push to have informal work conversations, perhaps in chat or email, about things that it’s easy to just mention in person. A lot of my work conversations that start as “I know it’s written down somewhere but which team owns this” end with “well how’s the kids, etc” which is mundane, but like, shits bad, the answer may not be just “oh, fine.”