Companies have resisted home-based workforces in the past due to budget, communication, productivity and technology constraints.  The technology is now available and it provides a range of solutions to fit many budgets.
 

You’ve probably heard the term ‘follow the sun’.  Effectively, it is saying that as one set of staff are finishing for the day as the sun goes down in their part of the world, another set of staff, in a totally different location and time zone, are commencing their day.  It’s used as a way to describe how, for example, call centres, help desks and financial dealing rooms can provide continuous service across a 24-hour day without having to maintain a shift roster of many people in one location.  That all seems to make sense.

Most developers agree that reviewing code is an important part of (hopefully) reducing the number of bugs introduced into the system. However, the challenge is keeping your team productive whilst maintaining a code review schedule that gets enough eyes across the complete code-base.