[amcintyre]

I've wondered how difficult the hiring needs to be before companies will consider hiring good engineers to work remotely. So much of the dev work I've done over the years could have been coordinated/overseen from the other side of the world via email/chat/Skype just as well as it was through the (many) useless meetings we had in person.

[dkersten]

Some people I know are already working remotely (myself included, though I do contract work, rather than full time employment) - they seem to start working on site and slowly transition to remote. One guy I know is working for a startup in Dublin but recently moved to Berlin and he is working remotely from there.

It still seems rare though and I too wonder how difficult it needs to become before this becomes more accepted.