No one wants to hire remote employees. They're harder to manage, harder to build trust with. The entire discipline of managing people has been built around the panopticon for over a century. They've gotten better at that style of management for over 100 years. They don't have nearly so much momentum or nearly so many examples of success with running a remote company, they're still too new.<p>The pandemic was an interesting study in how to deal with different difficult circumstances, but there's simply too much momentum in the discipline of managing people The old way. The pandemic was a flash in the pan, and while it did prove to everyone that remote does work, I guess those with money still prefer to give other people money when they can see them working.