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There are successful, fully remote, companies, such as Automattic (Wordpress), Gitlab and more. If they can figure it out, seems more companies can as well.

I love how Automattic refers to their work not as remote, but decentralized. Remote work indicates there is a central location, but there isn't one at Automattic.

My company is on the smaller side, but we're 100% remote work and have employees and a management team spread across the US, Canada, Europe, and China.

We communicate extensively through video calls and Slack.

>I just don't think we have the communication tools to support productive collaboration between people who hardly ever meet.

How do Open Source projects achieve it?

No real deadlines and mostly one or two developers max on any given improvement.

And you work on things that you want to work on. If something is a hassle you punt and if people complain, what do you expect from free code?

How often does free software - and I mean no paid positions - compete with commercial software? OSS puts companies out of business (because it turns out people think some things should just be $0) but the projects that actually compete are a very small fraction, aren’t they?