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I’ve struggled with this too. I’m good friends with some people from my last job - but I met all those people pre-pandemic when we were in the office every day. I’ve struggled to connect with people in my current role.
I’ve set up weekly virtual coffees with the people I like at work. We do little work talk and mostly use it to gossip. And then we do bi-monthlyish lunch with a group of us.
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We had an offsite retreat that made a big difference. Just having several days of in person meetings and dinner (plus some late night drinking adventures) made a huge difference in our remote team dynamic. Could you all do something like this?
This is the way. Even if you aren't able to do an offsite retreat, could you suggest that everyone on your team goes into the office on the same day and then schedule dinner/drinks afterwards.
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I’ve struggled with this most of my career. As a (older) millennial lawyer I find that I have very little in common with my often much older colleagues. I’ve tried, organizing zoom happy hours and such at my prior firm and that was fun, but now I’m in house with a small legal dept and I feel like most of my colleagues here have no personality outside of their identity as lawyers, which is not how I am. Good luck though, hopefully you can find some ways to connect!
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Lunches have been helpful.
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