When we looked at starting remote, a lot of I spoke with people cautioned against the "hybrid" approach. Some people on the team remote, some in the office. It sounds like your experience was the extreme. You were the _only_ person not in the office.

What tends to happen is decisions get made that remote people get left out of and they get communicated verbally rather than through the normal channels. It's really important that the company plans around the remote people. I've heard from lots of companies that they've ultimately canceled remote work when there's just one person remote. It's a bit too hard to break out of bad habits.

This is a great cautionary tale for teams who are thinking about adding one or two people remote when they're all in one place.