I enjoy the in-person interactions in the office, and I'll even argue that there's benefits and desirability to it, and office work and centralisation. But my

I enjoy the in-person interactions in the office, and I'll even argue that there's benefits and desirability to it, and office work and centralisation. But my wife has worked at a company that did offsite kinda vacation/camp things, and gotta say, it ranks up pretty high there on the corporate dystopia cringe scale for us. I work at a semi distributed organisation atm (several offices in different cities) and we generally used to have once a year offsite. while it was nice to see some faces in person, the experience of leaving my family to do so, and to have to go to locations and accommodation chosen by work, was again just a downer. I know other people looked forward to it, so horses for courses, but I also know there were people working long hours and liking the travel because they had nothing else going on in their lives. I think the strengths of centralisation stand independent a lot of these practices, that make a lot of us shudder on some level.