I don't need to bond with you. I don't need team-building exercises. I have been working for over a decade and made 0 friends at the office. I'm an easy going guy, though, no complaints or anything. Just keeping it professional is good enough. A bit tired of the whole "we are a family" thing really. Plenty of successful open source projects are successful and driven by people working together remotely and behind avatars.

Most workers enjoy being emotionally manipulated by their employers.

A friend of mine was gushing because their new employer sent some chocolates to everyone at Christmas time. They felt “appreciated”.

>It's really hard to bond with people exclusively through chat. Especially if you hide behind an anime avatar or refuse to switch on your video.

If they are not bonding virtually, I don't see how much better that relation is going to be when I force these people to be in a corporate space.

I worked in MS Vancouver office

It's a little special since most people there were due to visa issues preventing them working in Seattle

It was too cold. Open layout with people yelling on calls

I'd wander around for a few hours, then go home to actually work. I only had one coworker on same team there

>Open layout with people yelling on calls

I would never again want to put up with it.