Some places make remote meetings work really well for themselves. You can get automated transcripts, easy sharing of stuff like slide decks, low barriers to pulling in people if you realise they have something to add, etc etc.
But if your company has a shit meeting culture I think remote meetings can make it worse. People zoning out and working on other stuff is a symptom of that. I have found online meetings hide the costnof adding too many people and people are less diligent about meeting minutes etc. So you get a pattern of meetings with lots of people who are sitting there zoned out but who can't just skip it completely because there's no other way of finding out what's going on.
