[anony23]

If there's a strong culture of sharing skills and knowledge, it will exist independent of whether or not it's a remote organization.

[webmaven]

Right. Purposeful knowledge sharing isn't really impacted by remote work, only casual and incidental sharing is (eg. the kind of knowledge you pick up from overhearing a conversation or a rant).

Frankly, relying on knowledge sharing being a deliberate practice seems like a good tradeoff if what is lost is the random osmosis facilitated by overhearing highly distracting conversations, which is even less reliable than rumor.