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I don't agree on the face-to-face part. Remote work does not predetermine bad communication. It IS correlated because most of people that do attempt it do it in this outsourcing style. If you have a company-wide remote-first culture your communication can be as good if not better than traditional arrangements.

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You certainly have a point. Remote work doesn't have to have bad communication but there are barriers to communicating and if the organization is not set up to properly handle the barriers it can cause issues.

Outsourcing to a different country in a different time zone with entirely different management styles is asking for communication trouble.

A company built on remote work from the start seems to be more likely to succeed with remote work than one who has adopted it kind of ad hoc.

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