+1 for occasionally meeting up.  My  team works remote and while some of us do see each other more frequent, others are on the other side of the country.<p>So about two times per year, once for a tech summit we go to , and another we have our own summit, we take over a hotel and hang out.  During this time we also gives talks and other things but it is half fun and half work.<p>I think occasional face to face time and bonding time is super helpful, but not everyone needs that every day, and I think in our case it had made these twice a year meet ups something we all really get excited about and look forward too.