Every software job I’ve had for over a decade has had at least one employee on the team working in a different office or from home. Frequently different time zones. This was already a reality and as the other guy in the thread said, we’ve already seen maximal outsourcing.

>So what if the guy works night and sleep days

is what you said in another comment and it has a lot to do with working with others to the point where I see remote jobs specify what time zones you can live in so that you have overlap with the rest of the team. Everyone whose worked with coworkers on a completely different shift than you knows how often simple tasks turn into 3 days events simply from the cycle of

Send request -> clarifying question is sent back -> send clarification taking an entire 24 hours for each step to resolve

The fact that only one member was remote caps the remote availability.

I feel like this supports my theory.

Nowhere in my story was there the implication that there was only 1 remote employee at that time because there was a cap on remote employees.

You also get into the grey area of if it counts as a remote team if every member of the team is located in a different regional office.