6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
If you want to be treated equally you have to join an organization where the majority of workers are remote.<p>Otherwise you run into crap like "make yourself available all the time".<p>If you're the only remote employee, the OPs advice is pretty good, but I'd add "look for a real remote company" to it.<p>Also... video chat? What's it for? In a remote context you get those very useful text based communication tools that come with automatic logging so you can reference stuff later, and you want to do video chats instead?