No we’re not "all glad, on one level, to be getting back to live work, in-person with other human beings." At least I am not and if my other reading on Medium is any indication, I am not alone. Remote working is a huge perk for many of us and are not ready to give it up. Some of us are not overwhelmed with video conferencing. I almost never go full video. I probably average 4 hours of remote group meetings a day, lots of screen sharing but no live video. I do a few shorter one on one screen sharing discussions each day as well as just phone calls. I work 9 ea. 9 hour days each two weeks. Just not having to commute frees up 9 hours of my time each two weeks.

Reviewing documents and drawings is much more easily accomplished if we don't all have to gather in one place. Even when we had in-person meetings some of the participants were remote. We had a culture of remote work long before the pandemic. We are not an international company but we do have participants (customers and workers) in all four continental U.S. time zones.

Not looking forward to business travel either.

TEK