[Animats]

"A good in-person meeting is pure jazz. Its elegant sparring between those who care deeply about the things they are building, and watching and participating in this banter is one of the joys of my professional career."

This is a manager's view of meetings.

There's a lot of "we have to get people back to the office" right now. Some of it is fueled by the commercial real estate industry, which is terrified that business will discover they don't really need much office space. There are a lot of office leases not being renewed. Some of it is fueled by managers who are terrified that people will discover they really aren't doing much. Some of it is just power-tripping.

There is a real concern, though. There's a comment that working alone gets more done in a day but less done in a decade. Lack of irrelevant input may have long-term consequences for both individual careers and organizations. Too much focus on internal goals.