[deodar]

I enjoy face to face discussions and whiteboarding sessions on tough technical topics. And I'm a fairly introverted person.

You get 2-3 competent engineers in the same room with no screens, just a whiteboard, and magic happens. No amount of zoom or virtual whiteboards will replicate that experience for me.

Also I don't learn much being remote. Many of my colleagues are 20 years or more younger than me and yet I learn something new every time I have deep discussions with them.

I'm lucky that my commute is 30 minutes each way. I choose to go to office at least thrice a week and a subset of my local colleagues do so too. If the commute was much longer, then I wouldn't go in as much.