I'd say it's clear that it is possible to have some offsite workers in an enterprise. People have been doing that for a long time, often hiring the outsiders as

I'd say it's clear that it is possible to have some offsite workers in an enterprise. People have been doing that for a long time, often hiring the outsiders as consultants or what-not. But with 85% of the staff in the office, there's still a core or backbone of each team to hold things together and explain things to the 15% out-riders when they didn't get the memo (figuratively). What's less clear is whether you can run an substantial enterprise that's really distributed, without a real HQ. What happens when everyone, including the line managers, are distributed? I don't think anyone really knows.