While this sounds intuitive, I’ve crunched side-by-side with a coworker (literally couch-coop, sshing into pods to solve a production issue), and then having also done the same over Discord with screen sharing, I can confidently say that once you actually embrace remote there is no marked tangible advantage to in person.

Other than it’s easier to recruit for a union push on company time because people are constantly jawing, rather than doing their job when in person.