I run a 20-person fully distributed product &#x2F; engineering team at Parse.ly, and this post is a great summary of why we do it. It&#x27;s not about hating on offices, it&#x27;s about loving on quality of life.<p>Work-life balance and harmony is enabled by remote work. I don&#x27;t have kids, but many of my colleagues do, and they really appreciate the flexibility.<p>I don&#x27;t think all roles can work perfectly remotely, but software engineering certainly can. Github (any day but today :)), Trello, Flowdock&#x2F;Slack&#x2F;IRC, AWS, GHangout, GDocs -- these are the tools you would use anyway in a good company. And you can trade the money spent on offices for plane tickets to do team retreats and hackathons from time to time.