Automated Weekly Coffee Group Matching

This workflow is ideal for:

• Team Leaders: Who want to enhance team bonding through casual coffee chats.
• HR Professionals: Looking to foster a collaborative and friendly workplace culture.
• Remote Teams: Who need structured ways to connect and communicate regularly.
• Matrix Users: Familiar with Matrix protocol and seeking automation in their communication.

This workflow addresses the challenge of organizing virtual coffee chats among employees in a structured and automated manner. It eliminates the need for manual coordination, ensuring that team members can connect effortlessly, enhancing workplace relationships and collaboration.

1. Weekly Trigger: The workflow is triggered every Monday at 10 AM, ensuring regularity in scheduling coffee chats.
2. Greetings Message: A friendly greeting message is sent to the designated Matrix room to inform participants about the upcoming coffee chats.
3. Employee Retrieval: The workflow fetches the list of employees currently active in the coffee chat channel, ensuring the right participants are included.
4. Group Division: Employees are randomly divided into groups of 3, utilizing the Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm to ensure randomness and variety in group composition. Special care is taken to avoid groups with only one member.
5. Group Announcement: Finally, the groups are announced in the Matrix room, allowing all participants to see their assigned coffee chat partners.