How are you staying connected with your remote team mates?

When my team first went into remote work mode, none of us were prepared. The biggest challenge for me was feeling a sense of belonging to a team. Others felt similarly - water-cooler conversations were sorely missed (who would've thought!)

So, we blocked off an hour in the week for non-work conversations and goof around on a video call. Which helped us know each other better - some of whom I had never met in person. It has been a year and despite any amount of work load we gather to talk or play online games.

We even built a product for ourselves but that's a story for another time.

I would love to know what do you do to stay connected with your team!