I'm happy about the moves to more distributed work -- very positive. But I also think most making decisions right now are extrapolating from a very small sample set (of a couple of months of pretty specific work). Lots we don't know yet about how companies hold together over time

And fwiw we can reason about the anecdotal cases, some exceptionally successful like Automattic, Elastic, Gitlab -- and actually Mozilla, where we let anyone work from anywhere (lots from home) but had offices around the world too -- but there is very little systematic data yet.

My suspicion is that things are working well partly because the systems now support remote work well but mostly because of the social connection that high functioning companies have built over time. 6/12 months from now? Some connection will get creaky, need to continually invest