How often should remote teams meet physically/IRL?
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?
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.
Kendall Hyrum
Stealth
a year ago
Yeah we barely did once a year because lack of budget plus covid lockdowns. Planning to organise it and fix calendar dates.
Dezi Nadeen
Stealth
a year ago
Why not
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 🤣
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Kendall Carmden
Stealth
a year ago
Great! Keep doing. Nothing beats team bonding. It’s invaluable
Dezi Dean
Stealth
a year ago
You can aim for once every quarter; in the last week.
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.
