on 2008-04-17 16:05 Joseph Crawford said the following:
with the days of video conferencing i really do not see the point of going in-house for anything. My employer likes to bring me down here so i go with the flow.
Well, that's very nice. But not every company *has* video conferencing. And sometimes you need more than 15 minutes of conferencing time.
I'm not going to try to convince those of you who are "lone coders" the value of a co-located team. I will say that others do NOT feel as you do. Strangely enough, sometimes you need more than one person to do the job!
_Peopleware_, my oft-quoted reference, goes to lengths to talk about the benefits of "teams" of people working in physical proximity, and the positive results coming from that.
I am not saying that telecommuting has its place, only that telecommuting is NOT the answer to all problems, and that sometimes...you just gotta be there! This is why those folks who *demand* 100% telecommuting do not work for me (even if I have one special case).
Joseph Crawford
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