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I can believe this. We're 100% remote company, and it's great. But, we recently had a 2 day all staff in person meeting, and even the introverts came to me afterwards and said how enjoyable it was. I think what's key is not trying to force things. And I know, this isn't hybrid, but it highlights the importance of seeing each other once in awhile.

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I think well-executed "on-sites" where the company covers travel and lodging, etc are incredibly important for fully remote and partly remote teams.

There should be plenty of notice given and they should be on a repeatable cadence once or twice a year.

Introverts also say that because it’s the socially acceptable thing to say and they want to appear “engaged” even if they feel differently.

Wow I have been doing this subconsciously for YEARS

There's also the big introverts (or w/e) like myself who loathe going in at all haha. My company used to do yearly retreats when we were smaller and i couldn't stand them.

But i'm glad if some people enjoy this stuff. I just don't want to force remote people in office, or force office people to be remote.

Part of what i value so much about WFH (going on 10 years now) is the work life balance. I love hearing peoples children in the background, or people stepping out to run an errand or deal with life. I love that we can value and respect the individuals life for them to be able to do these things. Yea, we have "work to do", but work should be there to live life, not the other way around. Feels like we've clawed a bit of that back with more WFH recognition.

Yet despite being purely WFH, i still respect that others desire going in, or hybrid, or etc. I just hope we can all learn to work with people, however they best live their life.

That's not introversion. That's being asocial. People get those confused as often as they confuse introversion and being shy or quiet.

I also enjoy interpreting antisocial by the strict psychiatric definition when someone describes themselves as such.

Oh, so you're a devil-may-care litterbug? Tell me more.

But only for humor or conversational interest. Rigidly rejecting folk colloquialisms is kind of annoying.

I care about what words mean when used to label a group of people. I think everyone should.

Having a two team building days with your colleagues is not in-office work.

I think a more precise way to phrase it “it’s not hybrid work”, at least not the kind of hybrid work that is being discussed.

Agreed. I am happy fully remote but I am also happy when I meet my coworkers in person from time to time. I wouldn’t mind going to the office maybe once a week and I think it would be beneficial.

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