[ishwarn]

This is similar to what we do at Abl.

We use a Slackbot to ask everyone for a written standup update, answering a few questions:

- What did you do on your last working day? - What are you doing today? - Are you blocked? - Would you like a conversation with anyone (to get unblocked or anything else)? - Any announcements, like PTO?

And that gets posted in Slack at a certain time. The goal of this is transparency for what folks are working on, giving people the opportunity to raise blockers, and announcements.

We then have a scheduled 15 minutes a day to just hang. We have a check-in question that's not work related and we use the time to socially connect. We are a fully remote company that used to be in-office, and we found the opportunities to build & grow these connections are not available in a remote + scheduled Zoom world like they were in office.

[thunky]

> We then have a scheduled 15 minutes a day to just hang

This sounds awful to me. Not sure why it would ever need to come to that: forcing people into a room every day and telling them to connect with each other. It just seems forced and phony.

You already work together full time, and I assume you interact with each other as a normal part of your work? If not, maybe you aren't really on the same team, in which case why not invite accounting and HR into your social time?