> Potentially, the role of office stints as de facto schools where employees can learn and keep fresh a view of their skills, task, product, and company, just can’t be replaced. And this will be the downfall of remote.<p>Well maybe it should be more explicit, where the office is <i>literally</i> an employee school and meeting place first and foremost.<p>I think many "engineer" types would accept some mandatory, but infrequent and planned in-office blocks followed by exclusive remote work.