I worked remotely for IBM for somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 years. Although I was effective and consistently a top performer, that's mainly because I could do a lot of my work autonomously. IBM's conference call mentality made meetings truly unproductive. Teaming on the phone is very hard.

I'm now with a startup and we use Zoom all the time, around the globe. Almost like being there.

Flying for meetings? fuggedaboutit! Totally unnecessary in my opinion.