I’ve done plenty of meetings in a remote only setting where at the end I say “if anyone wants to hang and chat about things further, or just hang out and socialise, feel free to stick around”.
People get to choose if they stay. It’s at a natural context switch (end of meeting). It’s deliberately informal and not organised (“hey, let’s just hang for a bit”).
The opportunities are there to achieve the same goal as the water cooler.
When I see people lamenting what has been “lost” I usually read it as “I don’t want to look for alternative solutions”.
I’ve done plenty of meetings in a remote only setting where at the end I say “if anyone wants to hang and chat about things further, or just hang out and socialise, feel free to stick around”.
People get to choose if they stay. It’s at a natural context switch (end of meeting). It’s deliberately informal and not organised (“hey, let’s just hang for a bit”).
The opportunities are there to achieve the same goal as the water cooler.
When I see people lamenting what has been “lost” I usually read it as “I don’t want to look for alternative solutions”.