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When Bowman has a question for a colleague, he doesn't pick up the phone; he uses his joystick to drive his doppelganger to the team member's office. If Paulley needs Bowman's time on a software issue, he calls IvanAnywhere to his office, just as he would with any other employee.
For his part, Bowman uses IvanAnywhere to take part in meetings, even giving presentations with the help of a projector. Every once in a while, he'll motor to the floor's lounge area to look out the window and chat with passersby, much as he would if he were in Waterloo.
Bowman has worked for the Canadian database software company since 1993. Five years ago, when his wife got a job in Halifax, his employers allowed him to follow her east and telecommute. But although Bowman could type out code as well there as he could in Waterloo, he was missing out on the personal give-and-take essential to the flow of ideas. "We were, and we still operate really as, a small software development team where a lot of the collaboration happens face-to-face," Paulley says. "When it comes to coming up with an idea, we're almost always in each other's offices."
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