If there is one company which should be going all in on remote work, it would be Zoom. It has all the cultural and business reasons to foster remote work. And yet, they are doing this.<p>This confirms my hypothesis that remote work is overhyped and works only for a tiny sliver of workforce which is senior enough to work independently but not too senior that it needs to interact with a lot of other people.<p>After a lot of debates, I have come to realize that remote work can be awesome but needs complete rewiring of corporate culture, especially how we collaborate and communicate. Biggest obstacle to that is the ingrained habits of decision makers, who have worked for decades and find it easier to mandate RTO rather than changing their habits. On the other hand, I see remote being adopted by startups, typically led by young-ish founders who got used to the flexible lifestyle during COVID.