> I find the work itself much better when I can meet my coworkers in person Yeah I think this is an important point. I would still kinda call this "socializing

> I find the work itself much better when I can meet my coworkers in person Yeah I think this is an important point. I would still kinda call this "socializing" I think, but there's a huge difference between "just having people to talk about random stuff with" socializing and "interacting with the people I'm spending most of my time working with, talking about the things we're working on" socializing.