[Benjammer]

>I'd add that this culture-setting rolls down from management -- if they aren't setting a good example, others will falter and the remote-supporting culture will fall apart.

As someone who works at HQ for a local-first company with a significant contingent of remote workers in two satellite offices, it's _exhausting_ to be the developer in the corning who has to say "can we make sure the remote guys can hear OK" or "got a ping from Dan, remote guys aren't getting sound" in every single meeting.

Our office infra guy got a microphone with a padded box around it that you can toss around during the full company meetings so remote people can hear audience questions. The execs talking at these meetings have never once said "hey make sure we pass around the mic," it is always someone sending a text onto the big presentation hangout screen from a remote office saying "can you repeat the questions too please?" while the mic sits there on the little table right fucking next to the main speaker every single time.

When the managers and leadership don't care enough to prioritize it, it's almost impossible to change the culture around supporting remote team members.

[randycupertino]

But why should the local team all have to suffer and endure this hassle just so a few randos can enjoy their life being digital nomads? remote workers chose their bed, they knew the risks, they should deal with it.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Or, those employees are good, they are strong part of the company and with your life-threatening sacrifice you can... Pass the damn microphone around and get everyone included. Including people who are (not) digital nomads, live in the same city as yours but decided that growing up their kids rather than dropping them at childcare brings more value to society than the next meeting where a company care so much about you that they don't even bother passing around a microphone?