Between the Internet, video conferencing, e-mail, cell phones, and social networks, distance doesn’t matter. But technology by itself doesn’t bridges the gulf. The distance does matter.
If you can’t meet the people who you work with, you have no personal relationship with most of them.
You don’t ever see their working conditions, and, perhaps worst of all, you don’t see that not seeing might pose a problem.
Out of sight is out of mind!