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New Hires Need In-Person Data
- Remote work worsens onboarding and cultural learning for new hires because they miss rich, bodily social cues.
- Younger workers show higher demand for office time to gather the informal data needed to learn a company's norms.
Slack Killed A Pitch's Momentum
- John Favreau sent a long offline podcast proposal over Slack and received no reply for a day, which crushed him emotionally.
- In person he would have popped into colleagues' offices and immediately gotten positive feedback to launch the show.
Soft Work Builds Psychological Safety
- Casual small talk and 'soft work' build psychological safety over time, which remote interactions struggle to replicate.
- Psychological safety enables people to propose risky ideas without fear of personal humiliation.