[moshun]

100% agree, just left a highly functioning, high performance org that I led at one of the big tech companies and strongly feel this “bonding problem” is a feature of piss poor management. It’s not as easy, and it’s not the same, but running remote teams well means that you really don’t have people defecting every 15 minutes, accountability is high and (assuming compensation is fair) so is employee satisfaction.

A lot of these leaders are trying legislate away the impact of their unwillingness to evolve and adapt to a market that has fundamentally changed. Two of the tech giants I was at during the pandemic saw at least a 20% jump across the board in key productivity metrics and in some orgs as high as 30%. Other than Zoom/meeting fatigue and work/life issues that are pretty easily solved, it’s a win-win.

*unless your company has heavily invested in commercial real estate and you need to force employees back into it, to avoid losing a ton of value.

[iamcasen]

I think in this case, an established company with an established product and a mature org would do just fine in a remote setting.

I'm talking more about seed-stage startups and starting 100% remote companies from scratch. It's a whole different ballgame.