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This happens worse for me in the remote world. In the office I can see when Alice and Bob are talking about something important to my work and roll my chair over. I can't tell when my remote coworkers are meeting about things I should be included in but was forgotten, and they do this All The Time.

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Agreed. I've worked remotely and in-person. Both are nice once you develop the right processes.

But having half the team in one office and the other half remote seemed to be the worst of both. When I was remote I felt relief when everyone else in the discussion turned out to be remote as well, and when I was in-person it was similarly nice when we realized that everyone in the meeting was physically present.

So it's not surprising to me that companies would gravitate one way or the other.

Better hybrid processes have probably been normalized to some degree during the pandemic. But it's still probably true that if you're one of a couple people on an otherwise co-located team that are remote, that's probably not a great situation to be in long-term. You'll almost inevitably miss out on a lot and the co-located team members will always be making accommodations for you.

It seems you've worked at companies that were remote just in the name and actually had awful practices.

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