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I think in-person is better for culture and team building. That mindset works when workers stay at a job their whole career.
It used to be that you could stay at one job your whole career and be fine. That hasn’t been the case for decades now though. Workers started getting treated like they were expendable cogs in the machine, and so now workers treat employers the same way. Switching jobs is the best way to be successful and make more money.
So employers want it both ways. They want to treat employees poorly and still expect a good team culture to form to retain workers. They have to pick one.
I've got an amazing team at work and it's 100% remote. Wanna know how? A couple of employees turned out to be real clowns and it relaxed the atmosphere and pushed the majority to start getting involved in the chat and now people are joking around and having fun while there are more serious periods when people are asking questions.
People need to get that stick out of their ass, they wouldn't be 100% professional at the office, they don't need to be 100% professional remotely.
Maybe, but I also think a lot of remote workers are almost getting to the point where they don't want to work with people, but an automated system that brings them work to perform that they later submit to the system.
You don't need to pretend to be interested in a sports team or fake sympathy if a coworker's kid gets sick. Your employer may be a cog, but so are your coworkers. So coworkers treat each other like cogs or NPC's because that is all they are now.