well put. I work from home since 2011. My team was 90% of people working from office. 10% from Home. Now we have 10% working from office and 90% from home. The team cannot perform, there is people that simply cannot perform from home but dont want to go back to office. Team spirit from home is almost inexistent. We killed our team spirit and the quarterly meetings that we had in the office (which means people working from home, would go to the office and spend a week there), because it became to expensive. Managers dont know what to do, but its clear that something has to be done.
Collaboration can exist and grow if its fostered. The same things that foster collaboration in office can be done remotely, but you do need to be explicit about it.
One thing remote does select for is those people who are independently productive.
Is that your experience? I see people loosing the empathy with colleagues, colleagues are just a handle on slack, not committing in the level they should, not attending meetings. Meetings where people are just looking their mobiles, don't turn it on their cameras and don't participate at all at meetings.. It happens a lot and with some people the whole social aspect deteriorates pretty fast. In the office there is a dynamic that for some people is vital, the social aspect... i.e people tend to be much less rude and open to compromise face to face than just online..
