I run a 20-person fully distributed product / engineering team at Parse.ly, and this post is a great summary of why we do it. It's not about hating on offices,

I run a 20-person fully distributed product / engineering team at Parse.ly, and this post is a great summary of why we do it. It's not about hating on offices, it's about loving on quality of life. Work-life balance and harmony is enabled by remote work. I don't have kids, but many of my colleagues do, and they really appreciate the flexibility. I don't think all roles can work perfectly remotely, but software engineering certainly can. Github (any day but today :)), Trello, Flowdock/Slack/IRC, AWS, GHangout, GDocs -- these are the tools you would use anyway in a good company. And you can trade the money spent on offices for plane tickets to do team retreats and hackathons from time to time.