> Managing a team remotely requires different skills and greater trust. But it's still easily done.
Managing a team, remotely or otherwise, is not "easily done". If you find it easy you're either strongly underestimating your abilities or not doing your job right.
He is talking about the difference in difficulty of local vs remote, not the difficulty of managing full stop.
And he is right, managing remotely is a minimal change. I've been managing and working with people remotely for years, as has everyone who deals with coworkers not in the same office as they are.
It doesn't matter to me if they are in an office in another country or in their jammies at home in that same country, they are thousands of miles away from me.
Managing a team, remotely or otherwise, is not "easily done". If you find it easy you're either strongly underestimating your abilities or not doing your job right.