Isn't the solution obvious? Yes I have seen and worked at Web 1.99 companies buying these. "Telepresence". Yikes.
wait, can you _see_ my desk right now?
Where "many cases" all involve a team of 2 to 5 people working together in the same room and never bringing work home.
I'm pretty confident though with no solid evidence if you lower the first number by 1 you are describing the vast majority of employed programmers in the world.