Speaker 1
So I think basically we're being asked to go in about three times a week. And so, I go in around like three to four times a week, depending on how busy I am and how I'm feeling. There have been some weeks where I only go in two times a week. That's like less and less now. Honestly, I think my average for the past two months is probably like three days a week. Dude, that feels like a lot to me. I feel like the one day a week is already kind of like, oh, you know, that's a little bit of a commute. But are there any things that you feel like you like about going into the office? Okay, I will admit, free lunch is a big plus for going into the office. True. Honestly, probably one of the biggest motivators in the very beginning when I started to like slowly go into the office more. Right. Because I would be like, nice, like, what should I eat today? What's on the menu? Yeah, exactly. And then I'd be like, okay, cool, I can go to the office and eat this. And then I guess that helped build up the habit a little more like, oh, okay, like I'm used to just like, you know, picking certain days to go into the office now. Right. Okay, so one thing about me going in the office, I actually love going in on Mondays, because Mondays have the least amount of people. And it's just nice because it's quiet and I work better. Right. That way, sometimes if it's like the office is too busy, it's a little harder for me to like focus. Dude, I feel the exact same way. Sometimes I'm like, the library side of me comes out. Yeah, we need to use our inside voice. Everyone's shut up. Pretty much. But it is nice because seeing like my team in person more definitely makes our bond, I think, developed faster. So like the team that I'm with right now, we all got together or like we formed in the pandemic. Definitely for the first bit of time, it was like, we knew each other, but like most of the time we see each other is just business, right? It's like meetings. But now that it's like, oh, we're actually just in the office. So sometimes we can just turn around chat with each other. That is nice for like personal development. That's true. I feel like there's a lot of small things that you learn to appreciate about someone. Yeah. When you see them in person versus like on Slack or on video college, you know, there's so much distance between you two. Yeah. And I feel like also on like the Zoom calls and stuff, you're always like, I'll give you some time back. And you know that like the other person also appreciates that. So it's just like, oh, well, less small talk, which is I guess ultimately good for productivity. But sometimes it just like in terms of the like personal bonds and stuff, it slows it down a little bit. I think I felt that way too about like cross-functional teams that I work with definitely within my team. Because it's such a small team. I feel like we're relatively close. But with other teams, especially people joined during the pandemic, it's kind of like, we know each other, but we don't know each other. So then I found that when I was seeing people in the office, I was kind of like, Oh, shit, I will say like, I don't know what it is. But I kind of feel like before the pandemic, a lot of people at my company had a similar vibe. And the connection in between teams was strong. As in like the culture across the teams felt similar. Yeah.