I think that was the idea.

Most 100% remote places I know of that do retreats typically have them during the week. A weekend retreat would be reserved for an activity that would only happen on a weekend and has buy-in from the team.

There seems to be a lot of resistance from remote workers about remote worker retreats happening outside of work hours. Is this actually a thing? I have never heard of it other than the weekend caveat (weekend only event with team buy in) that I mentioned above.

> There seems to be a lot of resistance from remote workers about remote worker retreats happening outside of work hours. Is this actually a thing? I have never heard of it other than the weekend caveat (weekend only event with team buy in) that I mentioned above.

The occasional event w/ buy-in definitely can work, but that wasn't how OP seemed to frame it. Maybe I misinterpreted, maybe he badly explained his idea, I don't know. But I'd have given anybody sh*t for trying to make me work outside of work hours, remote or not.

People on my broader distributed team accept that periodic multi-day weekday off-sites are part of the deal. Can't really avoid some weeknights traveling. But, then, all of us normally do a lot of business travel anyway. Periodic F2F is important and there's no way to do it just on company time if everyone isn't in the same location. If someone really can't, they can dial in but that's inevitably not a great experience when everyone else is in the same room.

> Can't really avoid some weeknights traveling.

Just curious... does your leadership go out of their way to offer comp time for travel outside of business hours?

For example, they say or strongly suggest that folks who have to travel at night take the next morning off.

I imagine that this may not be common, but it seems like it would generate a lot of goodwill for folks who have to travel.

It's probably on a manager by manager basis. If I work a weekend day on business--whether because of travel or because there's a software community event on the weekend--I can take a comp day. For nights not really. But if I get home late at night, no one's going to bat an eye if I take it easy in the morning so long as there's nothing I have to do. My time is usually pretty flexible.

Context is more senior leadership, but 3-4x/year we hold multi-day offsites where we rent a huge house and the entire leadership team lives in it, shopping for groceries upon arrival, cooking all meals together, working on and off, with meals, nearby hikes or other attractions sprinkled throughout.

Those are incredibly productive (it's probably 12 hours per day of "work" topics) and help forge strong bonds in the team. They're one of the things we're literally counting down the days until we can schedule one for 15 days after the last vaccine dose is in the last arm.