FWIW it hasn't been my experience. I've spent about 9 years working with a fully remote company. The back channels exist, mostly as video calls in slack, but t

FWIW it hasn't been my experience. I've spent about 9 years working with a fully remote company. The back channels exist, mostly as video calls in slack, but to me that's no different than a conversation in a quiet corner of the office. You can usually sniff out who talks to who and what the relationships are like. I find you do have to call people though, if you isolate yourself in a remote company it's probably even more, well, isolating. No one's going to accidentally bump into you.