I WFH, every year one of the goals that the rest of the team decides is that it’s “so great” to see each other in person. The past few years haven’t worked out but one did. I spent hours in a couple of airports, the huge expense for the company, I spent days away from my family, and for what? So you could look me in my same face you would see if we turned cameras on every once in a while? My husband says I’m being weird, but I legitimately want to know, what is the benefit? I hate being there and have to play nice so you can…look me even closer in the face?
The benefit is that there’s no practical benefit but they get mad when you point out that they’re just making you come in to sate either your busy body co-workers being terminally extraverted to the point where even just going to the bar after work doesn’t stroke them off hard enough, or to sate the middle manager’s wanting to squeeze you for in office metrics so the higher-ups stop asking what in the fuck the middle managers even contribute when the best the workers do is the time when it’s impossible for said middle managers to be metric squeezing them the entire day.