What does your team do to socialize now that we are fully remote?

Question

These days that we are fully remote I'd like to know what other teams are doing to keep non-work-related social interactions alive. For example, we have arranged some online games and coffee meetings but I'm getting bored and would like to do something new.

maps7 · Accepted Answer

My team didn't socialize before this and aren't socializing now either. In the office we didn't even sit together! We saw eachother at standups for 15-30 mins and then whenever we needed to work together.
Now it's a conferencing call for the 15-30 mins during the day and people can contact whoever they need to work with.
I'm not even sure how socializing in a conference call works. Aren't people speaking over each other and won't it just end up with the biggest talkers taking over? Not that that is too dissimilar to face-to-face interactions..

exaflower · Answer

It&rsquo;s funny. I work from home as a distributed employee of a firm. Most of my other colleagues worked in an office until last week. Now it&rsquo;s been a boon for me socially! We&rsquo;ve setup afternoon and morning coffee chats, and people are just more communicative in general with me. Sorry to say it, that it took a disaster like this to get some love for remote folks.