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I work for a company that is completely remote, and we have an all-hands meeting 2-4 times a year. As an employee I find I need these meetings just to put faces to names, at the very least.

It also means you get a broader view of what everyone else is doing. It's easy to have a very narrow view of just the project you're working on, so you lose some of the cross-pollination of ideas between projects.

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At Mobile Jazz we have a weekly meeting with everyone. We share what we have been working on and especially the learning experiences of that week, regardless if they are related to work or not. This helped us know each other a bit better and also speak about things unrelated to work.

Also we pair people from different projects to work together for a couple of hours per week, two different people every week. This helped a lot in learning from other team members but also in general helping each other more often, because we now know better who to ask when a certain question appears.

I work for an overly-corporate company and we have those all-hands meetings 2-4 times a week.

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