Losing those serendipitous meetings is frequently mentioned by people bullish about working from home as one of the things they find difficult.
There are downsides to working from home, it's silly to dismiss them as mindlessness from the other camp.
There are downsides to working from home, it's silly to dismiss them as mindlessness from the other camp.
I wonder how that effect virtualizes.
In a remote-first culture, those meetings still happen, even though it needs some more effort to facilitate those situations. It's when the team is split between onsite and remote that remote contributors have a disadvantage and might even miss out on important things going on.