I was already on a distributed team when the pandemic hit. I think it ended up that way by combination of being a high-trust environment and being a low-corpora

I was already on a distributed team when the pandemic hit. I think it ended up that way by combination of being a high-trust environment and being a low-corporate-overhead environment (ie still a startup, albeit a late stage one). It was the most reasonable place I ever worked. I wasn’t given timelines, but I was the one proposing them, and everyone understood that timelines shifted due to unknowns. They paid my health insurance premiums and copays so I didn’t need to think about or worry about any of that crap. every meeting had a remote call link and nobody asked why you weren’t there in person. The management treated employees like adults. For a twenty something who only ever had butts-in-seats type office jobs, it was pretty revolutionary to me.