I actually wonder a bit about your attitude towards remote work. Especially in IT jobs it is common practice to enable people working from basically everywhere.
I understand that when starting to work together it has its advantages to be able to stick the heads together but since remote meetings are a thing the necessity is not really given.
At least that's my opinion.
When a small team is working together in the same space, it's very useful to be able to easily ask a simple question or initiate a design conversation whenever the need arises without needing to arrange a formal meeting. The extra overhead associated with an arranged meeting tends to discourage such interactions.
I operate in both modes all the time (remote and non-remote) and there's a huge difference in the amount of information that gets exchanged. It's so different that I try to make sure we always have a local tech lead for each project we are working on.