You know the pattern: a question comes in on Slack and someone responds four hours later with a partial answer. A thread forms, and by the end of the day, six people have weighed in, nobody fully agrees, and the decision that should\u2019ve taken ten minutes is now scheduled for “a quick sync” on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one\u2019s complaining, exactly. The work is getting done. But something feels off, like a song where the instruments are technically playing the right notes, but the timing is just slightly wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If that sounds familiar, you might be dealing with something bigger than a bad Slack day. You might be dealing with a team that\u2019s outgrown fully remote work. But just to be sure, here are the signs you should be on the lookout for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s get something out of the way first: this isn\u2019t an anti-remote argument. Remote work<\/a> is\u00a0 effective for a lot of teams, in a lot of phases, for a lot of reasons. Autonomy, flexibility, deep focus, no commute. Those are real benefits, and they don\u2019t disappear just because some cracks are starting to show.<\/p>\n\n\n