Most 100% remote places I know of that do retreats typically have them during the week. A weekend retreat would be reserved for an activity that would only happen on a weekend and has buy-in from the team.
There seems to be a lot of resistance from remote workers about remote worker retreats happening outside of work hours. Is this actually a thing? I have never heard of it other than the weekend caveat (weekend only event with team buy in) that I mentioned above.
The occasional event w/ buy-in definitely can work, but that wasn't how OP seemed to frame it. Maybe I misinterpreted, maybe he badly explained his idea, I don't know. But I'd have given anybody sh*t for trying to make me work outside of work hours, remote or not.
Just curious... does your leadership go out of their way to offer comp time for travel outside of business hours?
For example, they say or strongly suggest that folks who have to travel at night take the next morning off.
I imagine that this may not be common, but it seems like it would generate a lot of goodwill for folks who have to travel.
Those are incredibly productive (it's probably 12 hours per day of "work" topics) and help forge strong bonds in the team. They're one of the things we're literally counting down the days until we can schedule one for 15 days after the last vaccine dose is in the last arm.
These could happen during the week or (depending on the retreat) the weekend, with weekends probably being given comp time in lieu.
If you think that a modicum of face time throughout the year for a remote team has no value to a group or team, I’ve got news for you.
If you think GP was referring to additional face time in addition to face time at a workplace, then I think you may be projecting and selective quoting a bit. Note that employees at this small company can work when and where they want.