I've recently become supervisor of our design department and am being faced with a new challenge. Our company has traditionally followed the practice of copying files down from the server to our local machines. We work on all files locally and then copy them back up to the server at various points. Many reasons led us down this path. I can understand that technology has improved over the years and maybe some of our concerns are now resolved as result.

I'm curious what the thoughts of others are in regards to working on files locally versus from the server. A couple of new employees are adamant about working directly off of the server. Those of us whom have been around for awhile are the complete opposite. I either need to confirm my beliefs and retain our current practices or learn that things previously feared are no more and look into migrating the thoughts of our company so as to work more from the server.

Any and all feedback are greatly appreciated.

Jason