Here is something I honestly believe: Everyone or nearly everyone who, in the last four years, has gotten a bad impression from the "remote work" experience, it is because their workplace was doing remote work wrong.
"What do you mean by doing it wrong, Andi" I mean that they were videoconferencing. That's the secret. Don't videoconference. Don't default to videoconferencing. Don't ever videoconference at all. You don't actually hate remote work. You hate "Zoom".
Slack/async chat: This works very well.
"Meetings" where everyone gets in the same slack chat at the same time and it is expected everyone will be low-response-time on questions in the chat for a bit: This also works very well.
Audioconferencing (group or 2 on 2): You maybe shouldn't *default* to this, and group audioconference meetings shouldn't be an everyday thing. But this also works very well.
Videoconferencing: Just don't! Just don't do it! It's disruptive! Everybody hates it!
I would agree of ytalk-style chat was available. Chat delimited in full messages with people I don't previously know feels somewhat stilted.
