https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/01/squadpal-is-a-social-app-to-help-remote-working-teams-gel/

The future of office work, post-COVID-19, is driving plenty of startup activity. Not just around core business needs like comms (Zoom, Slack et al) — but entrepreneurs are also competing to come up with the perfect tool to recreate the social serendipity of office life in order to make dispersed workers feel a bit more connected.

This may actually be an impossible task. The chemistry of real life is a fickle wall-flower that’s hard to encapsulate in app-form (and a lot of office life was of course a total dirge). But that isn’t stopping people from trying. (The ‘Cambrian explosion’ of dating apps, over the past decade, also suggests that hope for meaningful human connection at the convenient tap of an app springs eternal.)