>It's really hard to bond with people exclusively through chat. Especially if you hide behind an anime avatar or refuse to switch on your video.

If they are not bonding virtually, I don't see how much better that relation is going to be when I force these people to be in a corporate space.

I worked in MS Vancouver office

It's a little special since most people there were due to visa issues preventing them working in Seattle

It was too cold. Open layout with people yelling on calls

I'd wander around for a few hours, then go home to actually work. I only had one coworker on same team there