Right now I believe that there is a gap between remote workers, their “workplaces,” and their colleagues.<p>Current tech-based solutions like Slack and Appear.in aren’t fully filling the gap between offline and online connection, so I am curious to hear your thoughts on what you might envision for a solution that assists remote workers so that they feel as if they’re working alongside the team, and that they are connected, no matter where they’re located…<p>I’m especially interested to hear how your organization may currently be tackling this and am keen to hear your personal insight as well.
We've only started having more remote people about half a year ago, so not an expert, but a great way we've used to tackle the absence of water cooler conversations is using Donut - it's a Slack app that regularly pairs up random team members for one-hour chats. It's a great way for getting to know people you might not work with directly and improve collaboration. We also have daily standup meetings and weekly meetings without a specific agenda (the agenda fills up as a week goes by, and it's sometimes good to just chat and connect too). Hope that helps :)