[ebiester]

The push is that some of us are led by life circumstances to do so. (For example, I am married to an academic with a tenure track position outside of a top-50 city.) My choices are to commute to another city or work remotely. (Coming home for the weekends sucks, by the way.) ____

That said, I find that full remote works really well. Half-remote is a lot more difficult for the reasons you say, but encouraging all employees to work remote some of the time starts to equalize those issues, because everyone has the empathy of the experience.

I've developed a set of coping strategies, but I agree that it's a tradeoff unless everyone is remote.

[SubuSS]

Oh I understand the real world pressures, that's definitely not what I was discounting. I can see why people want it, I am discussing the efficacy of it and questioning this general push instead of opt in. IMO that's what you are trading for this Sophie's choice of a situation :/

Unless your exec board itself is fully remote, I don't think a company can be. I don't know of many companies like that :(