The remote workforce is growing.

Numbers from Gallup show that 43 percent of employees work remotely at least some of the time, and according to Globalworkplaceanalytics.com, the number of employees who work remotely has grown by 140 percent since 2005, nearly 10 times the rate of the rest of the workforce. That number does not include freelance and contract workers, who are sometimes treated as team members and often don’t work in the office.

While remote workers are a welcome addition to a …