My company merged with a few others, so we are now multi-location. We reorganized, so the people in my room are not the people I work with anymore. Half of the IT workers are temps, externals, consultants, all over the world. So I spent my days in headphones, conducting meetings.

Our main office is a drive a few hours away. Because of cost optimization, the building is in a less desirable part of town, and a few colleagues had to deal with crime on the way to work. On some days, predicted desk usage is above 100%, but management said that's OK because we'll spend our time in meeting rooms anyway, and we're supposed to empty our desk while we're in a meeting room. There's an endless amount of people shuffling back and forth, so if you're close to a door there is no way to have any concentration.

Seeing all this, why should I go back to my company building? To annoy the people sitting next to me who are not my team members anymore, by having full time meetings over the computer?

Thank god my managers are wise enough to say:this doesn't make sense, stay at home when necessary. But other teams are required to come back and they don't like it. Their bosses wonder why. I want to answer, they are hiding to try and get some work done, but you're not allowing them.