I'm curious, did you grow up on it? Or was it just there?
Of my good friends, a majority of them were met online and very rarely have we met in person - maybe a couple dozen times over the past 25 years.
I don't particularly care which way companies go since there will always be remote-first options: there were many before the pandemic, and there will only be more after.
But from my experience a large problem is companies just aren't used to doing what it takes to help relationships develop in a remote only environment. They aren't used to it because when you co-habitate with people it happens more naturally. But it takes more deliberate choices for it to happen remotely.
I wouldn't point to this to call remote "harder". Just different. There's also all sorts of other difficulties with respect to being in an office that you don't have to deal with remotely.
And ultimately, some will prefer one or another. Which is fine.
Of my good friends, a majority of them were met online and very rarely have we met in person - maybe a couple dozen times over the past 25 years.
I don't particularly care which way companies go since there will always be remote-first options: there were many before the pandemic, and there will only be more after.
But from my experience a large problem is companies just aren't used to doing what it takes to help relationships develop in a remote only environment. They aren't used to it because when you co-habitate with people it happens more naturally. But it takes more deliberate choices for it to happen remotely.
I wouldn't point to this to call remote "harder". Just different. There's also all sorts of other difficulties with respect to being in an office that you don't have to deal with remotely.
And ultimately, some will prefer one or another. Which is fine.