I don't know, I've been working from home primarily for the last 3 years. We use IRC, XMPP, e-mail, version control systems, project managment software, etc.

I don't know, I've been working from home primarily for the last 3 years. We use IRC, XMPP, e-mail, version control systems, project managment software, etc. With all this tech, it's pretty simple for me to do something and leave it for someone else to pickup while I sleep, as long as we both go to the effort to do our parts properly in the first place. Even in an office, working on a startup, I would often find myself working on my code, while other people are working on theirs with the expectation I'll do mine correct. It just seems to work from my experience, though I'd still much rather prefer to live close to work to pop in and attend meetings without it being a plane flight away.