I agree with your first post 100% -- as much as we'd like to think working remote is the future and all the video conferencing startups and Slack make remote wo

I agree with your first post 100% -- as much as we'd like to think working remote is the future and all the video conferencing startups and Slack make remote work as seamless as the office -- there's lots of little things about working in an office that's somewhat irreplaceable. Water cooler talks really are more important than you'd think. I'm actually in an arrangement of WFH 1 day a week right now. It helps a lot with my grueling commute, and gives me a day of mostly code work which is nice; but if there happens to be a need to schedule a meeting on that day, I feel that I concretely get less out of the meeting than I would if I was there personally with the team. Perhaps the team gets enough out of me from the meeting from what I have to say, so maybe it's fine, but I feel like if that happens a lot more often, I'd feel more and more out of touch with my team. If one has to be in a certain geographical region for family reasons, it may be worth it to simply get a job locally, even if that pays less than what you would get at that remote job for some X tech company based in San Francisco but allows remote.