Open Offices Inhibit Remote Work

> I have an informal testing measure for how well remote and local team members maintain a distributed culture – jokes. Jokes with a team are common and tend to be impulsive. If that type of non-critical, impulsive communication has moved to Slack it often means that the culture is effectively distributed.

I think that is very insightful. Jokes are a very human, casual interaction that is easy to measure, and gives a lot of insight into how well people get along and start to actually mesh as a group.