It's Not Remote Work. It's Online Work.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The phrase “remote work” frames the thing wrong, and it matters.

“Remote” implies a center. There’s a place — an office, a headquarters, a room where the real work happens — and you are remote from it. You’re the outlier. The person calling in from somewhere else while everyone else is together.

This framing was accurate when the minority of people weren’t in the office. It made sense to call them remote. But it stops being accurate the moment the distributed model is the primary model. When 70% of your team is “remote,” there is no center. The office is just another node.

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It's Not Remote Work. It's Online Work.