4 expert tips to help you brainstorm while you’re working remotely

Relying on random, chance encounters to do creative work seems incredibly fragile, so take the advice of remote working experts to manage this collaborative effort.

There are two standard ways folks brainstorm in an office. One: Get in front of a whiteboard and spout off ideas. Two: Bounce around the office and hope something sparks your creativity.

You can’t do either of those when working remotely—and honestly, that’s a good thing.

Bouncing from the coffee room to the break room to the ping-pong room and hoping work gets done will waste a lot of energy. You might get some good ideas. But that’s in spite of your efforts, not because of your efforts. And relying on random, chance encounters to do creative work seems incredibly fragile.