If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you shouldn’t have hired them
I always feel very conflicted about remote work. It doesn&#x27;t work for me personally, I never work remotely unless special circumstances force me to for a day or two. But I realize that is a personal preference and many people have the exact opposite preference and I want to respect that.<p>But I have a couple of teammates that moved to different cities and are now 100% remote, and I find it very frustrating that I can essentially never talk to them in person. They fly in once or twice a year but that doesn&#x27;t help the situation the entire rest of the year. They report that in their view video calls are working as an adequate replacement for face to face conversations but I completely disagree. I don&#x27;t know the solution though. They are valuable team members and I&#x27;m glad they didn&#x27;t have to leave the company when they moved, but at the same time I really don&#x27;t want the trend to expand or for us to hire new people knowing they will be 100% remote.