I work for a company that has a global presence. Teams are often distributed across a couple locations. We also have some remote workers. We have people in o

I work for a company that has a global presence. Teams are often distributed across a couple locations. We also have some remote workers. We have people in one office who's entire team is in another office. We have people who are the sole person on their team in a given location. There really is no practical difference between working remote or working in a different office at that point. Yes, face to face interaction has a lot of benefits that are noted throughout these comments but once you've incurred the overhead that comes from having more than a couple locations letting people work remote doesn't have any negative impact. I can see why some 20-person trendy startup that hasn't had time to figure out how to effectively coordinate across multiple locations doesn't want to hire remote. They don't want to incur that overhead yet. For bigger established companies there's no good reason not to hire remote or at least allow the flexibility to work remote as needed.