This is situational and will depend entirely on who you work for, who you work with, and the nature of the organization as a whole. I started out as a freelanc

This is situational and will depend entirely on who you work for, who you work with, and the nature of the organization as a whole. I started out as a freelancer put in charge of the organization's data operations (getting data from point A to point B with processing in-between). I took the legacy system and transformed it into the next generation of data processing tooling. Slowly the situation morphed from me doing all the work (platform and handling business requests with the platform) to bringing on team members to start carrying the vision forward by taking parts of my previous responsibilities. The high level is that one teammate now takes on platform improvements, and two others handle business requests. The person I report to is responsible for the broad cultural structure of our tech team. He put me in charge and gave me full autonomy of half of the technical enterprise (the other half is an internal web application produced by two other teams). Independence and autonomy are important qualities to allow your teammates in a remote environment (for data operations, anyway), this does require finding teammates with an adequate level of competence and agency when hiring. I find that 1:1 chat based communication creates a casual environment which leads to an easier formation of relationships with my teammates. I help form relationships overtime between teammates by asking them directly to rely on others for information, code review, and discussion of platform improvements, and training. I've never worked within an organization remotely on its payroll. I think a defining quality of what makes my organization work well remotely is that we're all independent freelancers, so I don't have to worry about what motivates my teammates as much, because it's fairly obvious, they are working for themselves and are motivated to make money by billing hours. It seems counter-intuitive, but for over 3 years now I've watched roughly the same group of people, with the addition of new people, continue to work together without drama or politics.