There just isn't enough bandwidth to do good design when a team is geographically dispersed. I'm not saying it can't be done at all, but the results are vastly better when the entire team is physically in the same location. I'm convinced of this, and will never agree to do software development with a dispersed team. [Joel on Software]
I love to work from home, and yet I agree with Joel. I live twenty minutes from the office and go in three or four times a week to meetings, lunches, training sessions, and, most importantly, design sessions. We have guys who call in from the Connecticut office and one guy who works from his home in North Carolina, and it's not nearly as effective as being there. At home I do all my programming and my deepest thinking and I just love the increased productivity. Plus it lets me integrate my work with my life in a way that's more natural to me.
Working from home and the office is the best of both worlds.
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