| My point is, if you're forming a new team from people that never seen each other and they communicate during random zoom calls the chances they will grow a real bond are very slim. People will join the stand up call saying routine like "hello yesterday no blockers", proceed to grab a random task from the backlog and call it a day. Meanwhile in the office people will have a casual chat over a coffee, go for a smoke, grab a lunch together and maybe even hang out after work on their own accord. When someone shows up late for office saying "crap my kid is really sick" it's more likely that someone else steps in and say "hey, it's fine, I'll do the deploy for you today". When someone asks for that in a group chat people may miss it, and honestly, who cares about random set of pixels on your screen. Not to mention that in the office, if you're not an asshole, people will stay with you after work and be willing to teach you how to work with that new library or system. I'm not seeing that organically happening in full remote structure where you can't really put a face behind a name. Like I've said, I worked for fully remote companies long before covid happened, but everytime those companies invested a lot of time and money to get people together and do random meaningless stuff. Heck, when I joined Wikia in 2006 they flew us all from all around the world for basically two weeks vacation so we just could spend the time together and to get to know each other. |
Sure that's fair.