Why aren’t more companies remote-first?
Am I the exception? I think Remote work sucks.<p>I&#x27;d rather have proximity to co-workers so we can easily share ideas in informal ways.<p>Sometimes you don&#x27;t want to formally disperse some information but are happy to let people overhear what you think.<p>An environment where people can find meeting rooms when they need them, can find peace and quiet when they need them but also generally have co-location means good team cohesion.<p>If developers are remote, you will find that your code-base becomes the same. That critical FooBarAdapter becomes something that only Naimh can work on because without co-location if another developer is stuck on it, rather than grabbing her for a &quot;Can you look at this?&quot; over the shoulder, it gets slung over the fence in an issue or pull request.<p>Yes, when working face to face too many (formal) meetings can be a problem, but don&#x27;t abolish co-location just abolish the meetings.<p>And don&#x27;t be a cubicle farm. Yes, if you think the alternative to remote work is an anonymous grey cubicle on the 5th floor of an anonymous office block (or just as bad, the &#x27;trendy&#x27; exposed ducts open plan office), then remote work will look like nirvana.<p>Of course I&#x27;d also recommend being somewhere with good public transport and have flexible working hours so people aren&#x27;t forced into long commutes in poluting personal transport. Also offer and allow occassional remote work to further ease that demand without losing the benefits of co-location.<p>But whole-team remote work? No thanks!