Random Employee Chats at Cloudflare

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cloudflare engineer David Wragg introduced "Random Employee Chats" to recreate casual office encounters and maintain social cohesion among remote workers. The process involved randomly pairing participants for 30-minute video calls with no fixed agenda. Initially, a shared spreadsheet was used to coordinate the chats, but this relied on manual tasks. To automate these repetitive tasks, Cloudflare developed an application using its Workers platform, which runs entirely in Cloudflare's edge network without any need for backend or origin servers. The resulting application includes a user interface, storage, automatic participant pairing and notifications, and reminders for users to register for the next session. The code for this implementation is available on GitHub.