The problem was the pandemic improvised remote work. Remote work is a cultural thing more than anything. You can't turn remote and still take hours to answer a

The problem was the pandemic improvised remote work. Remote work is a cultural thing more than anything. You can't turn remote and still take hours to answer a simple yes/no Slack message. You can't push everyone into remoting without emphasing the need of keeping written documents and meeting notes accessible to the team. You can't turn remote and just use Slack like an extended mail inbox you check three times a day. Remote will not work if don't have a documented onboarding. Remote needs people to embrace this change and embrace other collaboration tools, such as Discord, Teams, Zoom, VSCode Live Share etc. Remote needs a commitment from everyone involved, it's not just sitting at your couch and doing everything like you did back in the office. And needs a different management mindset too, managers need to push people into doing remote right too, or the whole team gets penalised. Until people figure it out we will keep having examples of "wow remote works great for X company" and "remote was a disaster for Y". I've been in productive and unproductive remote workplaces. I hated remote before until I saw it done properly. And yes, remote won't work for everyone. And that's fine. If you hate Slack and Discord, that's not a problem, offices exist for a reason. Just don't try to measure the whole world with your ruler.