This was, ironically enough, an online meeting of my team.
Boss said that senior management is aware that morale in the organization is not good and asked for our input on ways to improve it.
Two of the long-term employees who started well before the pandemic, just went on and on and on about how nice it is to see your co-workers and how being together helps to spark ideas and all the usual slush. Me and the other employee who started during the pandemic and have been mostly out of the office (I've been almost entirely remote) didn't say a word.
Because god help you if you actually say that you don't give a shit about seeing your co-workers. Even if they are nice people! The only reason you are together is for work. Many people don't want to get too personally involved with their co-workers.
The thing no one ever talks about is all the g-d emotional labour this mandatory camaraderie this requires. They rarely talk about how toxic some co-workers are and how harmful being in the office can be.
The capper to all this is that one of the bullshitters is hasn't been helpful to me at all, even when it is literally her job. Probably because I haven't spent 6 years buttering her up first.
This is a limited-term contract job and I am SO GLAD about that. Gives me a way to gracefully exit.