>> not just management sitting up in their high castle and issuing a decree That's great to hear. >> In remote-only setting, everything requires setting up a

>> not just management sitting up in their high castle and issuing a decree That's great to hear. >> In remote-only setting, everything requires setting up a meeting. That often formalizes everything, and less things end up being discussed. That is something that can be worked on though, don't you think? We should be able to improve that bit of the "remote working" thing, I feel. I'm currently with a client that has the type of problems that pretty much demands of me that I, or the PM in my team, responds to their chats within the minute. That means I have to keep an eye on the notifications all the time. That takes a bit of a toll on me, I have to say. But it's manageable. Perhaps a devastating failure happens in production that we need to resolve as quickly as possible. First the client chats me up. Then we realize we need more info so we invite another person into the chat. Then we go video. We all turn our cameras on and we talk freely until we realize, we need top dog to approve emergency deployment of Very Important Patch, so we invite them and get their clearance and then we rock'n'roll. I think we just simply need to become very good at remote communication, for this new world (that I day dream about) to become reality. And that's not easy. But just because it's not easy shouldn't be enough to scare us away from it.