It sounds to me like your experience in a remote team was sub-par, but that doesn't make remote teams bad... just that one. Culture, chatter, gossip, staying u

It sounds to me like your experience in a remote team was sub-par, but that doesn't make remote teams bad... just that one. Culture, chatter, gossip, staying up all night to get a release done... all of this can be done with remote teams if you have the right tools and you build it into your culture. Of course there are pros and cons for remote teams, but my experience is that the pros far outweigh the cons. I work in a team that has us spread across 4 countries (Australia, Poland, UK and Brazil) and very clashing time zones. It works amazingly well. We have much more talented people working in our team than we could have gotten if we restricted our search to the local area only. I am positive having better staff far outweighs any cons of being remote. My recommendation to anyone but my competitors would be to seriously consider a remote team.