In my opinion mixed environments can absolutely work but are _extremely_ dependent on managers experience/maturity. If the rest of the team sees the management

In my opinion mixed environments can absolutely work but are _extremely_ dependent on managers experience/maturity. If the rest of the team sees the management culture treating remote workers as first class citizens (in meetings, in communications, in documentation), then the rest of the team follows suit. I agree that there is a network effect that is lost for the remote workers but it also depends on your ambitions, I would argue (and maybe I am projecting my preferences) that most of the people with remote preferences are IC's who love the technical work and have no interest in leadership roles (for which the network aspect would more vital).