As Remote working is here to stay, pre-pandemic notions that meetings are primarily co-located with some remote participants cannot hold.
Remote workers cannot be made to feel like second-class citizens, who are felt excluded by their inability to play off the inter-personal interactions in the meeting room, or through poor-quality equipment find they aren't able to effectively contribute.
This requires a culture change in an organisation and needs to be supported through:
Infrastructure investments in teleconferencing equipment
Diversity, inclusion and unconscious bias training
Better, structured meetings
Remote workers are not second-class citizens but in such environments they are treat as so.
Remote workers are not second-class citizens, but as Remote Working is Here to Stay, the most equitable form of meeting is to Treat hybrid meetings as remote-first.
Remote workers are not second-class citizens and should be able to interact with collaborators on an equitable basis.
Previous personal experience of extensive remote working has often felt like virtual meeting attendants are an afterthought, whereas actually Remote workers are not second-class citizens.
In this scenario, the virtual participants are second-class citizens as they are not able to participate to the same level of effectiveness as those in the room, who are able to better read body language and hear all participants.