I am really wondering whether physical proximity of the employees, empirically, has a reasonable relationship to early success? A pure guess (based on personal

I am really wondering whether physical proximity of the employees, empirically, has a reasonable relationship to early success? A pure guess (based on personal preference) is a mix of remote and local working, favoring remote -- would still produce big successes. (Although, this balance should be kept flexible depending of the state of which the project demands.) This could stem from programming requiring a mix of social and private time, which works naturally with local and remote working.