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Because when state is not written down, the only way to find it is to ask. So a standup appears, then a weekly sync, then a catch-up for the people who missed both, and the calendar fills with meetings that exist to transfer information.
Each one is reasonable. Together they remove the thing remote work was supposed to give you.
The task is the state: owner, status, next step, and the history of how it got there. Docs and decisions live beside the work rather than in a chat channel that scrolls.
The standup digest summarises what actually changed since yesterday and cites the tasks it read, so somebody in another time zone can catch up without asking anyone.
It will not make a team communicate. It removes the meetings that exist only to transfer state, and leaves the ones where something is actually decided.
And it is not a chat tool replacement, though team chat and video sit alongside the work rather than apart from it.
Capacity comes from Nest, so working patterns, public holidays in different countries and leave are already in the picture rather than discovered on the day.
Approvals route to the reporting line rather than to whoever is online, which stops decisions waiting on one time zone.
Products, not integrations. Each one reads the same record, so a join is a permission rather than a sync job with a mapping screen behind it.
Yes, including per-country holidays and working patterns, from Nest.
It cites the tasks it read, so it can be checked rather than believed.
Many teams do. The digest covers the transfer; keep the meeting for decisions.
Half an hour on your own numbers is usually enough to say whether Loop is the right place to start.