I agree 100% with this blog post. I have worked remotely for Mozilla for the last four years: first as a senior dev, now as an engineering manager with a team

I agree 100% with this blog post. I have worked remotely for Mozilla for the last four years: first as a senior dev, now as an engineering manager with a team of currently 7 people. My team is located in Africa, Europe, and North America, and we work closely with ops people located in the US and Asia (Singapore, India), as well as people in other parts of the company in a number of other timezones. I believe more than half of the Mozilla workforce is remote from an office. This includes places like Portland OR which has more than 10 Mozillians, but no office. Some riders: - We work hard at being remote friendly. We all spend all day in IRC. We put people's timezones in the phonebook. We make extensive use of IRC, the phone, Skype, teleconferences, Vidyo, email, Bugzilla, wikis, and etherpad. We get together throughout the year - sometimes a couple of people, sometimes just our team, sometimes our group, sometimes the whole company, sometimes at an office, sometimes at a brewpub or cafe, sometimes at a conference. - We actively screen for remote suitability when interviewing people who want to be remote. - If people are in a country where we have an office they are employees, if they are in a country where we don't they are FT contractors ("geo-contractors") but we treat them like employees in every other respect. I think it makes life a touch harder for our admin staff, but they are awesome and take it in stride. I've been doing this for a while, it's the best thing I've ever done, and my team kicks butt.