I think there is value to meeting the people you work with face to face. It goes a long way to help build rapport, and it doesn’t require all that much time.

I would be OK with 1 event per quarter, which would be 4 weeks per year. Not exactly 90/10, but close enough and 90/10 sounds better than getting too technical. Give me a free flight, hotel, and food in an interesting place for a week 4 times per year. I’m good with that, provided they aren’t all so mandatory that if you have a conflict with life they don’t shit can me. Maybe there are 4 opportunities per year, and you show up for 2.

I was actually going to suggest this to my boss as a compromise when I went to work from home and moved about 6 hours from the office… but the pandemic happened 2 weeks after I left, so that pretty much eliminated any chance of that happening and the team I was on in that office was gutted.

If this allowed a company to eliminate their offices completely, I wonder how that would work out financially. I assume it would be cheaper than maintaining an office.