There is so much value in just being in the same room as other people. There are countless people who I have become close to that I otherwise would have ignored if we didn’t end up in the same space regularly.

I currently work in a company that has an optional office and I can say for sure that I am many orders of magnitude closer to the people who work in office than the remote ones. I quite readily have meaningful personal conversations with the people who come in office while I could hardly tell you a single thing about the remote coworkers.