[quicksilver03]

It's sad that this kind of retreat is considered a perk, they're more like punishment to me. What's the point of joining a company, remote-first or not, if I then have to spend several full successive days with the same persons I see and speak to every day? They're not my family, and I consider this kind of "bonding" highly inappropriate.

[lotsofpulp]

I feel the same, business is business. I sell you my time and buy your money, or I buy someone else's time and sell them money. We can be polite and chit chat about non political stuff, but I'm not interested beyond that in a work environment.

[rarjunpillai]

There was a time when it felt inappropriate to share news beyond the immediate family. Then came social media. With all its shortcomings, social media has still managed to do some good things for the world.

Times change - if you feel safe in an org, you'd want to hang out, open up and share. The sad thing is - most of the orgs won't give us that environment.

This is my humble attempt to build an org where I love to work and share