Cholla: keeping remote teams strong with online experiences
This time last year, my co-founder Pat and I had a full schedule, and most of it revolved around work. Between the corporate frisbee league, the employer-sponsored HIIT classes, and the weekly company pick-up soccer game, we were seeing a lot of our colleagues. Add in after work drinks a couple of times a month and we were spending upwards of 8 hours a week socializing with our team.
Fast forward to Summer 2020, and the social fabric of our work life had been destroyed completely. All sports had been cancelled. Everybody had come to dread the weekly work drinks on Zoom, which required Mick Jagger levels of alcohol consumption to alleviate the awkwardness of 10 people drinking alone and speaking one at a time. We’d had one properly organized social — a pub quiz that Pat spent 20 hours crafting, and I then stole and re-used with my friends because good content was so hard to come by.
And so, in a move that was variously described as “bold”, “risky”, and “poorly thought-through”, we decided to quit and try and do something about it.
