I am always shocked at the amount of travel that companies assume needs to happen. (Hell, I'm still shocked that the majority of job posts of HN are for local employees only, often in the most expensive city in the United States).
Async communication has its problems, and it's nice to be in the same room now and then, but good video conferencing software/hardware is a hell of a lot cheaper than flying people all over the world for one or two day meetings all the time.
Async communication has its problems, and it's nice to be in the same room now and then, but good video conferencing software/hardware is a hell of a lot cheaper than flying people all over the world for one or two day meetings all the time.