[Atlas]

If remote first, what is second? Remote first seems like an odd way to label what they are describing. It sounds like they want to be fully distributed but are claiming remote first as a hedge in case they want offices in the future. Just commit to fully distributed.

[tharkun__]

Distributed is fine. Remote too. But what's wrong with lots of towns in the 50-100k inhabitants range? If you have multiple employees maybe even a whole team of 10-20 in that town then commutes would be good enough to warrant a small co-working type space that would make use of in person benefits while not incurring commute or living arrangement sacrifices.

[notatoad]

It sounds like you want them to ban working from an office? If a bunch of employees working in the same region want to work in an office, why stop them?