You maintain favorable access to that information, and your people get to see different scenery instead of being stuck in one particular, usually crappy, locale

You maintain favorable access to that information, and your people get to see different scenery instead of being stuck in one particular, usually crappy, locale. "Hey Bill, back when you worked that field off of Malaysia - was the minister's son more of a whisky guy or a hookers guy? He's the minister now & he's causing trouble."