My company, also based in London, has a mix of remote and local workers. One thing that everyone gets, though, is 1 day a week of work-from-home time. This coul

My company, also based in London, has a mix of remote and local workers. One thing that everyone gets, though, is 1 day a week of work-from-home time. This could be a way for you to get started with remote working, without requiring a full commitment from your employer. We use Google Hangouts for video & voice during most meetings, Slack for most chats, and something close to "black-hole" email addresses for most mail. (Basically: there is only one real 'developers@company.co.uk' team list, but each project has its own virtual address so it's easy to filter your mail in order to ignore/highlight project-specific mail.) To keep people in the loop we try to have on-topic things discussed by email, even if it's between two people physically in the office.