I think there's a deeper, wider systemic issue here. People think they'll get better at remote working by a) being bad at it, b) putting no effort into getting

I think there's a deeper, wider systemic issue here. People think they'll get better at remote working by a) being bad at it, b) putting no effort into getting better at it and c) doing it a lot. ...and in some ways it makes sense. Surely, if you do something for long enough, you'll get better at it right? The reality is, though, I guess, that in most domains, if you don't make an effort to get better, then the ceiling for the skill level you can acquire by just repeating the same mistakes over and over is pretty low. It's like having a soccer match every day and never putting any practice in between. You get a lot of experience playing, and you'll get better, a bit, slowly... but at the end of the day, two years later you're still basically rubbish at it and a let down to your team. That's the problem I see: People not actually believing that they have to put effort in to get better at working remotely...but, I don't think it's fair to say they can't be bothered. A lot of people are trying really hard to Make Things Work... they're just doing it wrong, because they don't think that they need to actually learn new skills. That's different to being lazy. Perhaps its particularly pronounced in people who aren't accustomed to taking feedback; but it happens in all kinds of teams at all kinds of levels. Work in a hybrid team where you have to meet up physically to do 'difficult' meetings where more than 3 people have to talk? Have a team that doesn't really talk to each other outside of standup? Got an agile coach who can't share their screen? Have big online meetings where no one turns on their cameras and only one or two people actually speak? Yeah. I mean, I've had all those things on and off in the last two years. It's a bit of a joke really. It's not just execs who struggle with remote working. They're just easy targets, because they're especially bad at it.