Exactly, they are stupid. If they worked the experience would be the same as sharing the same space. The tech should be more or less invisible.

I'm also curious what tooling is missing. Slack, Zoom, and Outlook has covered 100% of our very large (over 1000 employees) remote company's needs.

Seems the issue is more about reducing the number of tools rather than acquiring new ones.

VR cubicles

Video chat with eye-contact and body language. That's the missing part to create trust in remote work relationships.