I strongly disagree. I spent years managing an all-remote team that was spread from Perth, WA to Seattle, WA (for different values of WA). It was a fantasticall

I strongly disagree. I spent years managing an all-remote team that was spread from Perth, WA to Seattle, WA (for different values of WA). It was a fantastically productive team. It has been my experience that rarely do productive software developer depend on working with each other synchronously (is it the thinking that they share, or the typing?) and when they do, it's not hard to find a common time to meet between two timezones. It is also rarely necessary to meet together as a team on a very regular basis. One catch is we would all meet face-to-face for a week two or more times per year. That was important for planning and socialization, but being apart was when 98% of the work was done.