[Ajunne]

At work, we have a permanent channel in Jitsi (a meeting in Teams will work too) that people can join when they have no other meeting going on. It's silent sometimes, but also the place where people ask silly questions that they would normally ask when standing at someone else's desk, or where people share non-work related stuff and discuss random things.

After two years of almost permanently working from home, it's grown to the place where the whole team just hangs when they're working to have someone to talk to when sitting alone at home, but also to ask serious questions, and equally so to talk non-work related banter from time to time.

Since the last few releases of Jitsi, we're also using breakout rooms to discuss some more in-depth things without annoying the rest of the team. Previously, those people would move to another meeting and come back when they're done. Now, they can stay in the one permanent meeting, and the rest can see them sitting in a breakout room, and go in and ask them when something urgent is going on.

I honestly think this approach has kept the whole team sane during 2+ years of full time working from home.