> the remote people find that they routinely hear about things much later than everyone in the office knows about them. I'm not sure this tracks with my experi

> the remote people find that they routinely hear about things much later than everyone in the office knows about them. I'm not sure this tracks with my experience. It seems like the organizational structure of a company is what keeps people from learning about things, not their location. The common case I can think of is that some meeting occurs in which a decision is made, and that decision and the context around it are not communicated outside the meeting (in a timely or efficient way, that is). Some people are "in the know" and others are not, but it's a function of who they work with, not who they meet in the hallway. If you mean gossip, watercooler chat, that kind of thing, sure. But, I don't miss that stuff. Maybe you're thinking of some other example that I'm not.