Start with low frequency (twice a year?) and increase it only as and when the team demands it. This way you can find what works best for your team. 
  
 Don't do random team building exercises, they don't work IMO. Have focussed high-priority / decision-making / brainstorming discussions only. You can also have other fun stuff like travelling together and partying for bonding after office hours.

Yeah we barely did once a year because lack of budget plus covid lockdowns. Planning to organise it and fix calendar dates.

Product Owner

Software Developer

Founders get addicted to their parisers and then just due to that slowly remote working gets removed... And you will be doing wfo forever... 
  
 Based on real incident 🤣

Operations Manager

Great! Keep doing. Nothing beats team bonding. It’s invaluable

Lawyer

You can aim for once every quarter; in the last week.

Product Designer

In my time during Apna, we used to have a annual one week of work from office. Other than that, with our team, we used to take group vacations once a year.

Our team has been mostly remote (89 members) but I do realise the value in offline meetings (formal as well as informal). Haven't done many informal offline meetups yet.   Some members are in a dif...

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Our team has been mostly remote (8-9 members) but I do realise the value in offline meetings (formal as well as informal). Haven't done many informal offline meetups yet. 

Some members are in a different city/state, so calling them for a trip just to meet informally for a few hours is dicey since budgets are tight. And we don't do "team building exercises" online , I feel that concept is a little forced and unnecessary. 

Any suggestions? Thoughts on offline interaction frequency in general? Do's and don'ts?

How often should remote teams meet physically/IRL?

How often should remote teams meet physically/IRL?- Grapevine

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In the post Covid era when people are actually back to flooding offices and the highways are back to being jammed 24/7 and the elevator space is being hogged by everyone who has to get off before you, is remote still preferred?

Is remote working still the preferred mode?

Human resources

It's been almost two years since I have been working for a startup and I report to a founder. The work has been quite remote and the teams collaborate remotely. How often should I have one to one sessions with my manager? The last time we had a one to one was during my appraisal which happened a year ago post which we never met 1:1. However, we meet once a week on a group staff meetings which is driven on a specific business agenda? Is this something healthy?

What's the right level of communication you need to have with your manager?

Consultant

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I am an engineer and have been working remotely since the pandemic started. Initially, it was great as I could save time by not commuting to office but now I feel like I am missing out on something.

I don't know what it is but I just feel like I need to be in an office environment to thrive. Maybe it's the social aspect or the structure of having set hours, but whatever it is, I can't seem to find the same level of motivation when working from home.

Anyone else feeling this way? Any tips on how to make remote work more productive and enjoyable?

100% remote work is not working for me

Software Engineer

Been thinking about how remote work has changed the game for new hires. At my company, we've had to completely overhaul our onboarding process. It's been a real challenge trying to make newbies feel part of the team when they've never even set foot in our office. 

We've tried virtual coffee chats and online team-building activities, but it's not quite the same. 

How has your company handled this? Have you found any creative ways to build company culture in a remote setting?

Remote Onboarding: How to break the ice with new hires you've never met?

Now why everyone is talking about benefits of working from office?
I saw post from Sunil Shetty on linkedin.

My take is, when pandemic hit companies asked employees to WFH to keep wheel rolling.
Now we know WFH can give greater control over personal and professional life(at least for me) we don’t want to go back to office.

In my opinion corporate want us to work from office cause,

- they can control our time, 9hrs in ofc, you are getting paid for time not skills.
- they want to show who is the boss here.
- Learning is key reason for WFO, bullshit, we have a lot of learning portals and traffic time can be used to learn but it is never a intention.

What you guys think?

WFH vs WFO

Network administrator

I work as a data scientist in a remote setting. I meet my team once a quarter. Here in Bangalore all my friends and my wife have work from office so I end up getting too lonely working from home. Also, this has shrinked my network compared to before. How are others in the city handling this? What forums, IRL places do you visit to counter this. Imho, This surely isn't great for long term career prospects.

Remote job folks: how do you network and how do you deal with loneliness

Data scientist

Hi Grapevine, 

I'm Arnav, Director of Engg at Jio Cinema. I previously exited my startup to Scaler. Some of you may know me from ScalerPod. I've also led engineering teams at Zomato & Target. 

Here to chat with you about my journey in startups, leading engineering teams, and products at scale, among other things.

Ask me your question. I'll be back at 8 pm and begin answering!

I'm Arnav Gupta, Director of Engineering at Jio Cinema. Ask me anything!

I am being offered a role by a company that works remotely. Last time I worked too long at home, I developed severe anxiety issues cause I just stayed put inside home for wayy too long. I'm apprehensive about taking this offer due to the same reason. Is it good idea to take the offer since it's something I really want to get into but my health will also take a toll ig...

Thinking of joining a remote job. Need advice.

Data engineer

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And I don't have a coworking space nearby

Fed up with wfh situation. Feeling depressed whole day, any suggestion on resolving this?

Product Manager

Hey folks,
Coming from tier-2/3 towns, how do you manage to live away from home for full time in-office roles. 

Most of the people have decent set of responsibilities back at home ranging from parents healthcare to various documentations (like property management, bank-work etc). Becomes more important if you’re the only child.

Would like to know if there are any tools/services to manage this. How often do you guys travel back except for holidays?

Living away from home

Hard agree

Corporate Strategist

I am looking to join a Remote based QA Role and focus on health/finance/travel


So I have been looking for remote QA with tech Stack (Selenium, Java, Python,Maven, TestNG, Api Testing, Appium and SQL)opportunities so that I can invest more (No rent), focus on health (less travel time more gym time), and travel (planning 2 international trips this year).

For folks working remotely, please share your advice on how I can achieve this and if you guys have any suggestions for any of these topics, I am open for conversation. Thanks.

I am looking to join a Remote based QA Role and focus on health/finance/travel

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Need feedback from folks, who work remotely from India for companies outside India. 

How do you manage the timezone lapses? How do you manage being connected with the coworkers,  who are globally spread out?

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