Being forced to go back to office was one of the reasons (among many) that I left my last employer. My boss gave me the same spiel about how being together incr

Being forced to go back to office was one of the reasons (among many) that I left my last employer. My boss gave me the same spiel about how being together increases collaboration and is good for career advancement, while at the same time half of my department was on the other side of the planet and 5 of the 8 developers on my team lived out of state. On top of all of that, I have invested heavily in my home office on my own dime (they didn't give any stipend even though work from home was pretty much mandated). I found that my writs and fingers were starting to hurt so I invested in a a more ergonmic split keyboard [1] and mouse which I would have to lug into the office with me. I feel that my new employer, one that's exclusively remote, has a better approach of us doing an "on-site" every quarter or so where everyone from around the country gathers in a city for those higher level meetings and team bonding activities. [1] ZSA Moonlander https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/ https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/