Remote work is faltering —Slack and Zoom might be to blame.

Why our remote tools fail to live up to their potential, and how they easily could.

The dream of a fully remote tech industry is dead.

The pandemic that was a once-in-a-lifetime inflection point for that dream now sits squarely in the rear-view mirror. Return-to-office mandates are taking their turn to sweep pathogen-like across our industry.

Already on the RTO list:

• Meta
• Microsoft
• Amazon
• Morgan Stanley
• Bank of America
• Goldman Sachs
• JPMorgan Chase
• Wells Fargo
• John Deere
• …and many more.

…and the list is only growing.

“Fully remote” may soon again be a niche perk that some startups offer to compete against the big guys, which is a pretty a far cry from the“industry default” that some imagined would be our new future post-pandemic.

How did we get here?

Well, various CEO’s all seem to echo each-other when describing RTO as better in the following ways: