[ask] for someone to remove you from the Basecamp team for 1Password so you no longer have access to Basecamp logins and passwords.
Maybe we should temporarily suspend our employee's accounts too when they travel to the US.
i find it odd, i can understand it for my father that when some of his agricultural company partners has training, people from neighboring countries must travel there for hours to stay there for few hours and go back, but IT company in 2017?
reminds me of Huawei which is still organizing teleconferences (!) for trainings, because why not let people call across half planet in horrible quality instead of providing cheap full HD video stream work live chat, it's not like there are hundreds of us, max 100 people present
Because there is still merit to sitting face to face with people sometimes. Not all the time, sure, but sometimes. Also, not everyone works the same as everyone else, and sometimes people need to interact differently. I work remote primarily, but still get value out of my onsite times, just a different value than when I'm sitting at home working on a computer. Even in IT, there is value in sitting with someone and looking them in the eye for a few minutes, or holding two markers to a whiteboard.
A) - Full HD video conferencing for ~ 100 people is not cheap. At all. Bandwidth costs alone would be huge. B) - For teams that work together remotely, it is very important for them to meet in person from time to time. Communication issues drop when you can put a face and personality to a name on IRC / email. (and no, this is not achieved via video calls)
Communication is still a lot better face to face, but video conferencing is getting a lot better (and I'm betting on that with my own startup attempt :) ).
I'd definitely schedule periodic face to face meetings for remote teams, but that doesn't mean remote cannot work.
as for putting face to name,I can't hardly imagine how this could be positive for concentration and work, I am more likely going to be neural and more efficient if I treat other party as robot than someone with face, because then you lose focus on work
Meanwhile working for enterprise consulting companies, all of which have offshore teams, means remote work is a daily activity.
Funny enough some customers are exactly those companies that forbid home office to their own employees.
As I mentioned on my comment, instead of allowing their own employees to do remote work, they outsource the work to consulting companies that actually do support working remotely.
If you need to build in flexibility to work remote, add a one-time password system that has to be manually provide by a on-site staff. That way the decision to be compelled to provide authentication will rest on people not being interrogated in an airport.