Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion
Humans don't have emotional object permanence.<p>My ex-girlfriend described herself this way to me once and I thought it was funny, but it's in fact true of people in general: if you're not physically present near them, they will forget that you really exist as a human and a social peer.  It's unfortunate but it's true: you are going to naturally think more about and have better feelings about the coworkers you see every day in person. No, VC doesn't count.  I think this is pretty much a human universal; the only exceptions I know are quite far on the autism spectrum.  (Even I notice myself doing this, and I'm definitely somewhere on that line.)<p>Given that, I want to be in the room with my coworkers. I want them to unconsciously think of me as part of their tribe, and I want to feel the same way about them; that means we need to be able to perform regular in-person social petting.  This is doubly true of my bosses.  It sucks, but there's no way around it.<p>(Also, while this is less universal, there are plenty of extroverts, even on HN.  I'm one.  It's ironic, in that I <i>also</i> suffer from pretty nasty social anxiety; large rooms of strangers scare me and choke me up.  But lock me in a room by myself for a month and I go crazy. I am happier, by far, when I can be in the same room as people I like.)