Excellent question. The parochial mentality that workers must be colocated is clearly part of the problem. However, using remote workers is not the only solut

Excellent question. The parochial mentality that workers must be colocated is clearly part of the problem. However, using remote workers is not the only solution. As a remote worker, I can tell you that I have to expend more effort communicating than I would if I was co-lo'd. Granted, I'm an extrovert so I don't mind terribly. For more on this, see: http://evan.tiggerpalace.com/articles/2010/12/10/rule-0-choose-the-right-people/ http://evan.tiggerpalace.com/articles/2010/12/10/rule-0-choo...