[bluefirebrand]

> I do think that remote work makes things harder, and I've yet to see a remote team that fires on all cylinders

The way I see it is businesses can have it one of two ways:

They can acknowledge that remote work is fine and allow their teams to work from wherever and figure out timezone differences and async collaboration workflows

Or

They can decide that remote work doesn't work. Then they must stop hiring expensive remote consulting firms and cheap offshore remote teams. They also must stop spreading teams out across multiple regional offices across North America

It is absurd to make people commute to an office building only to have people dialing in to meetings from other office buildings in other countries anyways, and then say remote work doesn't work

[cmrdporcupine]

Maybe? Co-locating teams that work on a singular thing physically clearly has advantage for some organizations.

But yes, mixing remote and on-premise and expecting it to produce improvements is broken. Or being done for the wrong reasons.

I seem to have landed myself at a job like that just recently, in hopes of sparking joy with in-person collaboration again. I am not happy about it.

[convolvatron]

sorry to hear that you're struggling in today's world, but it makes me feel a little better :(

no process that consumes more than 5% of your developer's time can be called an effective process