That is just an opinion. For me, for example, remote work is a essential idea in this economic crisis. We can save on office, on hardware, phone bills - everyth

That is just an opinion. For me, for example, remote work is a essential idea in this economic crisis. We can save on office, on hardware, phone bills - everything. trac with discussion plugin and blog plugins is time-tested solution, along with little bit of self-discipline, of course. System administration tasks, for example, on Unix systems (which were designed for remote work, in contrary with all those desktop virtualization crap) can be perfectly done remotely. One week ago I did some emergency tasks on Informix server located in arctic Russian city Murmansk from Kathmandu, Nepal via local EDGE connection. There are many more benefits from globalization-affected outsourcing - the cost of living, conditions, climate, people around you and so on.