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Yes, this is not at all a problem of remote/wfh work. We have 4 hours sync per day, and the rest is async. You can have 100% sync, even with people on the other side of the world. What a crap reason to make employees’ lives potentially miserable.

Absolutely, I’ve seen teams of traders work over the pandemic, they worked remotely but they had a zoom call open and from market open to market close they were on that call the entire time. Their working conditions were almost entirely unchanged between remote and the office.

"Core working hours" addresses ALL their complaints as far as I can tell, not just the first.

Remote work enables me to see who is present and get more answers quicker as now I reach out asap. rather than schedule and wait for a meeting. In a crisis to assemble a team also became quicker and due to WFH the ability of that team to tackle a longer crisis increased. I also perceive the hierarchy as flatter.

I miss the non task related communication. Small-talk was never my strength and I suspect I need to get better given the remote working hurdles.