Employees vastly prefer fully-remote work cultures to being in office. Remote jobs get 7x the applications that in-office jobs get, and it’s easy to see why: there’s no commute, more flexibility, and various other comforting allowances to being alone in your own home. But the office has one benefit working from home doesn’t have — and never will have, no matter how many Zoom happy hours or trivia games companies host remotely.
It’s the benefit of true camaraderie, which comes from spending time with people in person. There’s no adequate replacement for it. But there is a way to introduce in-person socialization into remote work environments. And that’s by hosting offsites, maybe once or twice a year.
