[throwaway22032]

Is this what people actually want? To "work" with colleagues through a screen using a cartoon avatar so that you can sit in your boxers and not have to go outside?

Man, the world sure has gotten weird. It's like, I thought everyone was sort of like me. Turns out most people are a completely different species.

I don't get this from top to bottom. I feel like an 80-year-old looking at the kids in complete and utter bemusement.

[maccard]

> To "work" with colleagues through a screen using a cartoon avatar so that you can sit in your boxers and not have to go outside?

There's a huge difference between working remotely with colleagues and "sitting in your boxers not having to go outside". Some of us work with people who don't live in the same city as us, and tools like this make an effort to build up some of the genuine benefits of office work (and in my experience having used a similar tool for a year or so, they do so effectively)

The style may not be to your taste and that's fine, but sometimes you need to look past the presentation to understand something.

[throwaway22032]

One of the most enjoyable parts of having a career is travelling to different places, so this sounds like a net negative to me over just going to the other office.

I'm at peace with the fact that I won't ever understand it, it's been two years and I'm not even in the industry any more. I'm still entitled to express that.