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Re:Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starti... by RHSeeger on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @11:29PM (#27376933)
> a large proportion of interactions with remote work is formal, in a sense. No casual chat, no social “grease”.

Why? You have to put in the effort to be social, but you need to do that in person, too.

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Re:Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starti... by iab on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:00AM (#27377080)
Maybe that’s a touch too specific. But Igor me, it’s a lot easier to strike up a rapport on a walk to get coffee than scheduling a 30 min quarantini, a word I have grown to detest
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Re:Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starti... by RHSeeger on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:41AM (#27377288)
Ah. While my company does have a semi-daily "30 minute meetup" on "random topic of the day", that's not how I chat socially with coworkers. We have a few channels that are just "shoot the shit" channels. I us those to discuss random topics. And there's several private channels for the occasional need to rant. Overall, not all that different from the water cooler.
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