Equally, while going remote does expand a firm's talent pool, it also risks alienating potential talent who dislike working from home for a variety of reasons, including loneliness, a lack of home office space, distractions like kids or roommates, Covid-19 exposure and more. "You risk losing people for sure," he says. "It does limit the pool [to] people that are willing to work from home, and have a set-up that lends itself to that and that are productive at home."