I suppose you were working in not remote-first companies. Then indeed water-cooler talks keep remotees behind. But I can't agree on productivity and gym parts.

I suppose you were working in not remote-first companies. Then indeed water-cooler talks keep remotees behind. But I can't agree on productivity and gym parts. Massive telecommuting is quite recent habit thanks to technology advancements and it still needs some paradigm shift especially on management level. Such shift had to happen in the past with introduction of computers in offices, on-line shopping, on-line banking, selling insurances etc.