I will make the opposite statement about telecommuting. I have a rule that my team must telecommute. Everyone on the team with few exceptions must telecommute

I will make the opposite statement about telecommuting. I have a rule that my team must telecommute. Everyone on the team with few exceptions must telecommute at least one day a week. Here's why. We have the technology for people to be remote. We've had it for years. I used to do it at larger companies, and honestly it was a pain at times. This is exactly why I make people do it. I don't want to lose people or lose out on ones that would be great, because we don't know how to handle remote employees. I have remote workers now that are vital to the team, and we all need to know the pain points they suffer, so we can fix it. It didn't occur to me we had issues until he brought it up in a weekly meeting to me that he felt left out on side conversations. Now we all do it, so we all experience the problems and we can figure out how to fix it. Really this is our approach to everything. Anything we have issues with we practice until we get it right and anytime we see room for improvement we make it.