tl;dr if you have 1 remote person and 9 people in the office, that remote person is just someone to hand work to but not really "part of the team". If everyone has to use the 'remote tools' rather than go chat over lunch, then remote is going to work pretty well in a lot of situations.
I don't work here any more but I wrote this a few years ago about how there's a 'tipping point' with remote work:
https://business.dutchie.com/post/dutchies-remote-work-cultu...
tl;dr if you have 1 remote person and 9 people in the office, that remote person is just someone to hand work to but not really "part of the team". If everyone has to use the 'remote tools' rather than go chat over lunch, then remote is going to work pretty well in a lot of situations.