> This suggests a potentially disturbing trend -- companies or managers that will start implicitly punishing employees for working remotely. Unfortunately, a c

> This suggests a potentially disturbing trend -- companies or managers that will start implicitly punishing employees for working remotely. Unfortunately, a company where any significant proportion of staff actually works from an office will implicitely have remote workers at a disadvantage — pass-by discussions with actual decisions might never reach them, so they'd be missing a lot of context (at best, they'd get decisions without the reasoning). Basically, remote work requires full team to switch to remote-friendly practices, like relying on written forms of discussion. Basically, the office should only be a place for chit-chat and building the team spirit. Some people need more of that, and others need less.