I don't care one way or another is someone works remotely or in the office. What I do care about is effective communication between co-workers. Unfortunately th

I don't care one way or another is someone works remotely or in the office. What I do care about is effective communication between co-workers. Unfortunately though, for remote workers, there is an enormous elephant in the room; namely non-verbal communications. Truth is that study after study (after study) has shown how large of a role non-verbal clues are in the human communications process (some show 90%). To my mind, argue all you want about video conferencing and chat apps, humanity is innately social, and when you cut out large chunks of that social engagement and replace it with remote-work, there will be enormous social and work environment impacts. Of course not all shared-location work environments are created equal, and too many in management are both lazy and power hungry. They (and their companies) want to blame anything but their own horrific employment practices and lazy, out-of-date policies. So it's not all a bad thing remote-work has become as big as it has. However, like all human activity pendulums, the remote-work vs in-presence work one WILL swing back. I expect many of us will get a great deal of enjoyment in seeing it when it does.