Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion
Humans don't have emotional object permanence.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.)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.(Also, while this is less universal, there are plenty of extroverts, even on HN.  I'm one.  It's ironic, in that I also 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.)