I agree with you 100% I run a completely distributed company and no one in their right mind would argue that a completely distributed company or even a partial

I agree with you 100% I run a completely distributed company and no one in their right mind would argue that a completely distributed company or even a partially work from home company can be as good as the same people working TOGETHER in one office The bonds are much stronger The interaction is much better Two superstars together are 10 times better than separately However, when you do remote, it's only 5 times better At minimum, it is 50% worse to have a distributed company than have a real same office, same location company What really makes people say 'working from home is just as good' is a combination of 1) liking it for other reasons (more time with family, less pressure) and rationalizing 2) being able to cut out time wasting things (which they could anyways cut out if they were better at saying no to time wasting stuff 3) not ever having done it for a long time and seeing the long term implications There is a very good reason that very few companies have become very big and very successful while being distributed companies