Our team is remote and we&#x27;re 9 full-timers with a few contractors in the infosec space and it works incredibly well. I want to add that the main reason to work remotely isn&#x27;t really about saving on office rental. We take that cash and put it back into our employees home work environment and tools like awesome hardware.<p>The biggest benefit for us is that our team is able to have a better work-life balance and keep a high level of productivity. e.g. One of our engineers used to have a 40 minute commute either way morning and evening. Now he works from home and can spend more time with his family instead of in his car.<p>It also lets us hire from all over the World. Our full-timers are all in the USA and we have people in Ohio, Florida, Maine, Washington and Tennessee. So it&#x27;s a really diverse group but we&#x27;re also very tight knit even though some of us have never met in person yet. Several in our team work in small towns so they enjoy a slower pace and more quiet time which (coming from a small town myself) I think lends itself to solving complex problems.<p>I&#x27;d agree that it&#x27;s all or nothing with remote teams or you risk alienating half your workforce.<p>The best advice I can give any company going remote is to get Slack or an equivalent like IRC. It does a fine job of replacing the day to day contact you have with team members. Also twice weekly all-hands calls to sync up are great - we do voice not video and we go around the room and everyone updates us on what they&#x27;re working on. In a way we have a greater sense of what everyone is doing than some brick and mortar companies I&#x27;ve worked for.<p>I think for software businesses remote working will be the way everyone works 20 years from now. It&#x27;ll take a while for larger companies to make the shift because there is no very large company that does this yet but there will be and they&#x27;ll prove the model and the imitators will follow.<p>It&#x27;s also way better for the environment.