It doesn't have to fail that way. The company I work for has an office, but there's no pressure to use it, and we hire people from anywhere within a reasonable

It doesn't have to fail that way. The company I work for has an office, but there's no pressure to use it, and we hire people from anywhere within a reasonable time zone overlap. We are all on Slack all the time, and all of our meetings are video based. I was 100% remote for a while, and that worked fine; these days I'm in the office more days than not, and that's working fine too. I think mixed office/remote the way we're doing it is actually the best.