> Did you ever hire any duds when you were not hiring remote?

Of course, but that's obviously a deflection.

In person hires can't physically be in two offices at the same time.

In person employees can't get a new in-person job and then not resign from their last job because they want to extract as many paychecks as they can before they get caught and fired.

In person employees can't substitute in a hired interview taker for the interview and then hope nobody notices their voice sounds too different when they start the job.

These are all real things that we've encountered with remote work (and more)

Saying X can also happen in Y! Is a classic fallacious argument used by people who want you to think two things are equal, when in fact they can have very different probabilities and risk profiles.

When I was working at a hybrid company we even had a few cases where people either couldn't focus at home (kids, family, distractions) or were insufferably combative in chat. Bringing them into the office solved it.

The two environments are not equal, no matter how many times someone tries to deflect with "That problem can also happen in the office!"