Upsides of getting back to work from vacation

Context: Danish programmer

1. Coffee is better

2. The joy of focusing on the task at hand

3. Catch up with colleagues

4. New dynamics with some colleagues still on vacation

5. Contributing and purpose

6. Bike commute is free and automatic exercise

7. Family has the opportunity to do things without me

8. More social interactions

9. More calm at the workplace with half of everybody being away

10. Knowledge sharing that whoever is here has to deal with all the urgent stuff, even “someone else’s code”