Be clear on what is expected. Have weekly deliverables and weekly team meetings. Don't micromanage them or have them meet each day. Get them off to a good start

Be clear on what is expected. Have weekly deliverables and weekly team meetings. Don't micromanage them or have them meet each day. Get them off to a good start (give them all the gear and info they need to do the job) and be very explicit in what is expected. Give them a few weeks to get acclimated, then hold them accountable. Whether they are remote or in the office, they can be successful. If they are getting their deliverables in on time and do things the way they are asked to do them (follow these simple rules)... that's all that matters. And when I say follow the rules, I mean that I don't care if they use vim, emacs, nano, Wordpad, Windows, MacOS, Linux, etc. But I do care about how they submit a merge request and whether or not they PGP sign their commits.