eh. I've been doing remote work for nearly 8 years now. It's always painful. The problem isn't fancy headphones. That's just flippant. It's that mute/unmute an

eh. I've been doing remote work for nearly 8 years now. It's always painful. The problem isn't fancy headphones. That's just flippant. It's that mute/unmute and everything has latency. You can't just chime in like in person. It's awkward. "Sorry, what did you say James?" "Oh, I was just going to say..." Talking over each other is much more painful virtually than in person. Jokes land flat. No one laughs because they are on mute. Or possibly didn't hear it due to packet loss or other network/audio issues. I like remote work and can't imagine going back to an office, but I don't go around pretending there aren't serious downsides.