I lead/oversee a team of 7 that was built across 10 time zones, starting in 2017. The team got to its current size about 6 months before the pandemic hit. Three

I lead/oversee a team of 7 that was built across 10 time zones, starting in 2017. The team got to its current size about 6 months before the pandemic hit. Three of us are fully remote, and there are two sub-teams of two in one city, separated by about 40 miles. We've got biz dev, ops, and software development (NLP and image analysis). We definitely dial people in if we need them, and there's a daily stand-up. So, we were built around a hybrid-ish sort of model from the beginning. I'm honestly not sure how the team would do if we were all together. I know we wouldn't have the same team, that's for sure. A couple of the folks couldn't have taken the jobs if a move had been required. I oversee work by a number of other teams, they are all working at the international level, and none of them are fully localized. If anything, the one thing I think may change with the pandemic is that people will develop less localization, and travel to visit teammates will become a thing. If I recall, Slack does this: they have everyone meet up once or twice a year. We did that at the beginning and it was super helpful.