Water cooler talk & f2f meetings are essential to building intra- and inter-office relations. However, given a choice between a job that mandated this and one t

Water cooler talk & f2f meetings are essential to building intra- and inter-office relations. However, given a choice between a job that mandated this and one that didn't, I'd choose the one that didn't. Given that I have a 25 minute walk to work every day, I'm sure that my worldview is terribly skewed, and I acknowledge how lucky I am to have such a great commuting situation. But that still strikes me as odd. Are product teams under the same mandate?