Your employer is not really motivated to provide those things for you. They have a different motivation, which is to get you to work productively on a job they

Your employer is not really motivated to provide those things for you. They have a different motivation, which is to get you to work productively on a job they think needs doing. They may provide some of those either explicitly as an incentive, or as a side-effect of putting a bunch of people in close proximity, and that's great. But when profits are looking iffy, I don't think you can rely on it. It makes more sense to be less dependent on your job, which might go away, and to build those social experiences outside of work so you still have them to fall back on if you change jobs.