[shyn3]

The face to face conversation is a double edged sword. In my experience if you have a satellite office then the face to face conversations at one office don't make it to the other one so you can't really take advantage of globalization.

For example, you are in Office A and there is a major issue you can huddle in a room but if someone in office B is involved then all of a sudden they are listening to you from an conference audio that barely comes across, or most likely completely left out of the conversation.

I think the companies which will take advantage of globalization will be able to have everyone work remote or if in office only meet from their desks, which defeats the purpose of in person, with global employees performing support work but being fully engaged.