Taking this as a metaphor, there are times at work where I want to be asocial and work on a project alone. However, my company's culture is to be collaborative

Taking this as a metaphor, there are times at work where I want to be asocial and work on a project alone. However, my company's culture is to be collaborative and do things in groups. While I can see their goal is to strengthen interpersonal bonds, I find it can be a waste of resources. This can happen mostly in cases where we're solving a new problem as opposed to maintaining a legacy system. When multiple employees are working in a realm where their knowledge is limited, but growing, it can cause wheel-spinning because of other commitments. Sometimes going solo allows you to back out of dead ends more quickly and make progress that you can eventually share with others.