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Fully remote teams didn't come out of Zeus head fully formed in March, 2020. There was less of them, but they existed.

I consider the dynamic you described, of local teams in separated locations that have to work as one, actually to be a major antipattern. The communication doesn't flow as well between locations as it does inside each location. It's much better to shape the teams to the geographic organization.

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I think the worst anti-pattern is the "soft return to work" pattern that's sprung up, where one cohort of people have met and work together in person while the rest remain distributed and have never met. I think that "partially distributed" works if the team have all met and worked together in person at some prior date, but otherwise it's a minefield which demands very careful management and ideally (if possible), periodic in-person meetups.

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