This is how we are at Pathwright. Two of the co-founders are up in Greenville, SC, and I'm down near Atlanta, GA. Still close enough for me to be in the office periodically, but too far to commute.

Interesting to see that he mentions Hipchat, Google Hangouts and Skype. Isn't that 3 tools for doing the same thing? Even though Hipchat is just text communication.

Hard for team members to know what tool to send a message with.

In my team I use the same tools: Hipchat for text communication - among teams (chat rooms) and 1-1; Skype for 1-1 video calls but I use Hangouts for video conferences. 3 tools but each has own application.

But I'm curious how Netguru use it.

We use it in similar way. We also use skype for ad hoc, private group chats/im.

More about how we use hipchat here: http://blog.netguru.co/post/45142686929

Stephen Wolfram is doing it too ;D http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...

good read!

thank you sir

I don't agree with the article's first comment, about it sounding arrogant. Sounds like the guy has good advice, that's all.

// icp - quit the last job because I wanted to work remotely and wasn't allowed to.