> 2. Office meetings suck. If you are the only person dialing in to a meeting and the rest of the team is local there are tons of issues. Noise, missing out on

> 2. Office meetings suck. If you are the only person dialing in to a meeting and the rest of the team is local there are tons of issues. Noise, missing out on sidebar conversations, etc. > 3. You are obligated to overcommunicate to your coworkers or managers to compensate for your lack of presence, but often they leave you in the dark. > 5. If skype is signed out without you realizing it, management gets paranoid. > 7. Lack of visibility means lack of opportunities at work. > 8. Its very easy to get in a rut where the "remote guy" only works on certain specific things and can't grow their career. Remote / mobile worker in various forms since 2006 here... I'd call your points above a management problem, not a remote problem explicitly. It has really struck me over the past ~year as remote work is becoming more normalized just how bad managers have their lack of confidence / awareness multiplied when they are trying to interact with remote workers and really don't have the personal tools to do it. Sounds like you've done a lot of reflection on your remote experience - and you are right, it isn't for everybody (and that's a-ok) - but I posit a lot of the breakdowns in remote work are because management hasn't evolved past the industrial age.