The fascinating thing that happened with the HQ—work in the office, Field—remote work approach was that the field kept getting more and more talented folks and HQ slowly degraded.
These days quality of life is a big deal for most workers.
So—the HQ folks had the fancy titles and low quality of life, while the field folks had the talent and knowledge.
What happened was when difficult challenges were faced the Field folks created virtual teams to address them—and just let HQ know after the problem was solved.
We (field people) were very careful not to “rub HQ’s noses in it”—let them pretend they were the important people in the organization (and they did have the big salaries and titles).
It was truly a win win.
-PJ