[CabSauce]

I meant innovation and progress in the sense of the sharing of good ideas, and solving shared problems. If a remote job only involves some kind of repeated task, it could probably just be automated.

[throwaway91111]

Thank god most code requires no innovation at all, and thank god i am the one automating others out of the job!

Unless you're working on research, it's hard to buy physical proximity reducing throughput; just latency.