The reason is simple. If you are remote at an organization that isn't fully remote, it is quite apparent that you are basically a "second-class citizen" unless

The reason is simple. If you are remote at an organization that isn't fully remote, it is quite apparent that you are basically a "second-class citizen" unless a large effort is made to include you in things. It's not as simple as saying that everyone should work how it works for them. If you have a large enough mass of people who are colocated, it has real impacts on remote workers. (The converse is that if you push everyone to work in a way that accomodates remote workers, you probably deprive a lot of the people who prefer to be in the office of some of what they like about being in the office. I do think that the things that enable remote work -- documenting decisions, having good channels of communication and documenting things, etc. -- are beneficial for companies in the long run anyway, though.)