I recently turned-down a great job offer for a Bay area tech company. Their office was just too far outside my commute range. I even offered to remote-work pa

I recently turned-down a great job offer for a Bay area tech company. Their office was just too far outside my commute range. I even offered to remote-work part-time and be in the office some days a week (I had already been a 100% remote worker for 3+ years, so I had a proven track record as a remote worker). But the founder insisted everyone be on-site, daily, even though many aspects of the company were quite comfortable and capable with remote-work (they had a remote team in Europe). This "must be colocated" mind-set is lose-lose no matter which way you cut it. I turned down a compelling/interesting job, the company lost a great-fit. If I had taken the job, burdened with an absurdly long daily commute, we both would have lost time/productivity to commuting (not to mention the broader societal costs). Maybe it's going to take a billion-dollar startup to scale-up with a remote/distributed approach to really shift things.