> The problem is when communication are broken, you don't even know who you are supposed to talk to. In that case, I think it is quite obvious that doing it rem

> The problem is when communication are broken, you don't even know who you are supposed to talk to. In that case, I think it is quite obvious that doing it remotely is harder than if everybody is on the same building. Again, unsubstantiated. Why is it harder than if everyone is on the same building? >That's correct, the problem is the same. It has been my experience that as soon as things go south in a company, you have a vast advantage if you and your team work in HQ. It has almost always been my experience that the projects that got the most pull politically (and hence resources) were the one pushed by managers in HQ, or with an existing strong relationship that was created... by being at HQ. Again this has less to do with remote work and more to do with the fact that remote isn't the status quo. > You are the first manager I have met who claims this is trivial, remote or not. It would be trivial. Inherently to remote work would be an online record, whether that's Slack, Discourse or email to record all communication. You've yet to actually bring up issues inherent with remote work. All of the claims you've brought up thus far wouldn't apply in an organization that's already remote-only. Would there be difficulty to transitioning a non-remote org to be entirely remote? Of course, but this is an issue with making any large sweeping change. In another comment you make this claim: > but things like mentoring, quality of code review, etc. are hard to measure if you are not observing them directly. I would argue that all of this would be much easier to observe in a remote only organization as said communication would need to be made available through some record-keeping. Where-as in a on-premise organization code review and mentoring can occur behind closed doors and would be very transient. How would you know how well your engineers are mentoring each other?