> Somehow we were better at using remote tools while literally in the same office than some teams are at using them now while fully remote.

This is sort of the point. Remote tools work great when you have spent a lot of time building relationships and rapport with the people involved. That's hard to do in professional settings, and extremely hard to do in remote professional settings.

Letting teams that know each other well work remotely works great. Building teams remotely is very hard.

I'm a diehard for remote work, but we have to be realistic abouts limitations.

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jsight 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

IDK, some of the remote teams that I've worked on were only able to meet in person once per year, if that. They were very communicative on the tools that we had though.

	▲	HDThoreaun 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No one is saying it’s impossible to build fully remote teams from scratch, it’s just very hard and requires strong leadership. Most companies have crappy management so they can’t pull it off.

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LtWorf 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Debian works like that but the startups can't manage… interesting.

	▲	stackskipton 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Open-Source Project that doesn't have Project Managers and MBA telling you to work faster is a lot different then working at Startup that does.