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Most businesses won't/can't effectively use remote developers.
Explain? I've worked remotely for 20 years, and its working great. For startups, established companies, as a consulatant.
That's fantastic! It is great to work remotely, but it takes a certain kind of attitude and culture to effectively leverage remote workers. My anecdotes suggest that there is a nearness bias -- "out of sight, out of mind" -- which often leads to the colocated team members to lapse in keeping remote team members abreast of decisions and changes. Purely virtual teams don't have this problem and can be extremely successful. I've also seen it work where the remote team members are given an isolated component to own.