Physical get togethers in a remote-first company means I have to travel for that get together. I live in a rural area with no direct flights to anywhere other t

Physical get togethers in a remote-first company means I have to travel for that get together. I live in a rural area with no direct flights to anywhere other then major airline hubs, so now I have a layover somewhere and it’s basically an entire day of traveling to go anywhere. That’s 2 days travel for the round trip. Since it’s so much work to get everyone together, might as well make a week out of it. So that’s 3 working days plus the 2 travel days. It’s not unlikely one of those working days is going to be a ‘fun’ event day to make it all ‘worth it’ for people to travel- meaning just 2 productive working days. So a week of working 24 hour days (if I’m not at home with my family then it’s work), for perhaps 2 or 3 productive days. Considering I’m not traveling an entire day, I’m looking at at 96 hour week for maybe 16-24 hours worth of productive time. I get that we are not robots and being on a team is a very social activity- but I am entirely against traveling. We’ve had some really fun remote game-days during work hours and setting aside time to chat with team members is fun too. Please don’t make me travel and waste all the time away from my family and loved ones.