The Beastie Boys warned that you gotta fight for your right to party. The real battle at work (of all places) might be for your right to be boring.
It’s no longer just a happy hour here and a holiday party there. In the hybrid era, when bosses feel compelled to make up for the reduction of daily chitchat, the quarterly all-hands meeting now comes with a team-building trip to the go-kart track, brewery or ballgame.