As someone who does quite a bit of remote work. One must consider the time-lag. Even the best remote applications have 300 ms lags. It is one thing if every keyboard stroke takes longer than the blink of an eye. Quite another if every cut and suture has that delay.
Robert Heinlein was amused by Gernsback's attempts to predict the future. Heinlein said that the only sure way to be wrong about predictions is to assume things progress smoothly. A corollary is that successful inventions will always have unexpected sociological effects. Gernsback obviously thought managers would use technology to increase workplace abuse. Take those ideas as a warning rather than a suggestion.