The person walking out of the room will certainly be having the last laugh Travel is tiring and demands a lot of time out of your employees. It's not a 40 hour work week if you're not home.

Unless you're only looking to hire people who don't bring much value to your company, there always comes a point where the value your employee brings outweighs the cost of J, it's just that many companies prefer an attractive balance sheet to having the best employees, which, to be fair, is not easy to quantify and isn't really going to transpire in the investor documentation.