[ghaff]

>Remote-only cuts out the in-person experience entirely

Not necessarily. I work in a group that's very distributed and we get together (normally) a couple of times a year plus another once or twice with a larger group.

Of course, that doesn't work if it's more like getting together in person every week or two.

In any case, I agree it makes sense to collaborate. If you wander into the office and no one you know and work with is there, it doesn't make much sense to come in.

[xur17]

I work at a 100% remote company, and we do this as well (before covid). We're a smaller company, so I'd be curious to hear how it scales, but at least for us I've found it to work pretty well.

[ghaff]

I think it scales because, at a larger company, everyone isn't realistically going to get together anyway. So you get together in groups of various sizes. (And there are usually opportunities to get together with an even larger cross-section at things like user conferences.)