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What I miss is the feeling of having people around. Hearing voices, movements, something unexpected happening from time to time.
I've found that having twitch in the background makes the feeling disappear. I choose streams that are kinda monotone, low interaction, from likeable streamers.
At work I have scheduled meetings with no agenda. If we have nothing to talk, it's a short meeting. But it turns out that there's almost always something worth discussing. Without such scheduled meetings people might not think it's worth initiating a call or sending an IM and potentially interrupting someone's flow. At home we FaceTime people we normally drink beer together and do it remotely. Two or three families i…
That's a really good idea.
My version of this is to just suggest a call for very minor things and then try to toss in a good bit of small talk since we're on the call anyway.
So I think people are disengaged and you should push to have informal work conversations, perhaps in chat or email, about things that it’s easy to just mention in person. A lot of my work conversations that start as “I know it’s written down somewhere but which team owns this” end with “well how’s the kids, etc” which is mundane, but like, shits bad, the answer may not be just “oh, fine.”
I know it is probably not healthy but I am very much enjoying this social isolation. I suppose that makes me an introvert, but, I love spending time with my young son each day. Someone said 'hell is other people'. Although I don't think that is strictly true, boy, this has been a nice break. I feel fantastic.
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I don’t look at my coworkers for social satisfaction. It can happen and that’s nice. I find the question almost inconceivable. I’m also on conference calls half the day. Quiet is nice.
Right.
If remote working makes you suffer socially, then it could be your social life that needs looking at, not your work-environment.
If someone had a question or needed some collaboration input they would just unmute themselves and start talking. Usually a few seconds later others would also unmute and join the conversation. If more discussion was needed we would switch from our main channel to a private channel.
This setup worked really well for us and we liked the low friction way of quickly talking to someone without messaging them and setting up a call.
If you think this is bad and that you are now suffering terribly, then remember it next time, when you could socialize with a geek and be a nice person. Sometimes even we need some form of social interaction or a friend. Your geek friends might thank you one day.