diff --git a/parsl/channels/base.py b/parsl/channels/base.py
index ee0097f0d0..05241b878d 100644
--- a/parsl/channels/base.py
+++ b/parsl/channels/base.py
@@ -52,31 +52,3 @@ def script_dir(self) -> str:
     @script_dir.setter
     def script_dir(self, value: str) -> None:
         pass
-
-    @abstractmethod
-    def push_file(self, source: str, dest_dir: str) -> str:
-        ''' Channel will take care of moving the file from source to the destination
-        directory
-
-        Args:
-            source (string) : Full filepath of the file to be moved
-            dest_dir (string) : Absolute path of the directory to move to
-
-        Returns:
-            destination_path (string)
-        '''
-        pass
-
-    @abstractmethod
-    def pull_file(self, remote_source: str, local_dir: str) -> str:
-        ''' Transport file on the remote side to a local directory
-
-        Args:
-            remote_source (string): remote_source
-            local_dir (string): Local directory to copy to
-
-
-        Returns:
-            destination_path (string)
-        '''
-        pass
diff --git a/parsl/channels/local/local.py b/parsl/channels/local/local.py
index 1d7a15dfdf..6ef014ac19 100644
--- a/parsl/channels/local/local.py
+++ b/parsl/channels/local/local.py
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 import logging
 import os
-import shutil
 import subprocess
 
 from parsl.channels.base import Channel
-from parsl.channels.errors import FileCopyException
 from parsl.utils import RepresentationMixin
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -57,40 +55,6 @@ def execute_wait(self, cmd, walltime=None):
 
         return (retcode, stdout.decode("utf-8"), stderr.decode("utf-8"))
 
-    def push_file(self, source, dest_dir):
-        ''' If the source files dirpath is the same as dest_dir, a copy
-        is not necessary, and nothing is done. Else a copy is made.
-
-        Args:
-            - source (string) : Path to the source file
-            - dest_dir (string) : Path to the directory to which the files is to be copied
-
-        Returns:
-            - destination_path (String) : Absolute path of the destination file
-
-        Raises:
-            - FileCopyException : If file copy failed.
-        '''
-
-        local_dest = os.path.join(dest_dir, os.path.basename(source))
-
-        # Only attempt to copy if the target dir and source dir are different
-        if os.path.dirname(source) != dest_dir:
-            try:
-                shutil.copyfile(source, local_dest)
-                os.chmod(local_dest, 0o700)
-
-            except OSError as e:
-                raise FileCopyException(e, "localhost")
-
-        else:
-            os.chmod(local_dest, 0o700)
-
-        return local_dest
-
-    def pull_file(self, remote_source, local_dir):
-        return self.push_file(remote_source, local_dir)
-
     @property
     def script_dir(self):
         return self._script_dir
diff --git a/parsl/providers/condor/condor.py b/parsl/providers/condor/condor.py
index a736386d38..c8142c4026 100644
--- a/parsl/providers/condor/condor.py
+++ b/parsl/providers/condor/condor.py
@@ -245,16 +245,14 @@ def submit(self, command, tasks_per_node, job_name="parsl.condor"):
         with open(userscript_path, 'w') as f:
             f.write(job_config["worker_init"] + '\n' + wrapped_command)
 
-        user_script_path = self.channel.push_file(userscript_path, self.channel.script_dir)
-        the_input_files = [user_script_path] + self.transfer_input_files
+        the_input_files = [userscript_path] + self.transfer_input_files
         job_config["input_files"] = ','.join(the_input_files)
-        job_config["job_script"] = os.path.basename(user_script_path)
+        job_config["job_script"] = os.path.basename(userscript_path)
 
         # Construct and move the submit script
         self._write_submit_script(template_string, script_path, job_name, job_config)
-        channel_script_path = self.channel.push_file(script_path, self.channel.script_dir)
 
-        cmd = "condor_submit {0}".format(channel_script_path)
+        cmd = "condor_submit {0}".format(script_path)
         try:
             retcode, stdout, stderr = self.execute_wait(cmd)
         except Exception as e:
diff --git a/parsl/providers/grid_engine/grid_engine.py b/parsl/providers/grid_engine/grid_engine.py
index e7db987022..ddedcaa3e8 100644
--- a/parsl/providers/grid_engine/grid_engine.py
+++ b/parsl/providers/grid_engine/grid_engine.py
@@ -142,11 +142,10 @@ def submit(self, command, tasks_per_node, job_name="parsl.sge"):
         logger.debug("Writing submit script")
         self._write_submit_script(template_string, script_path, job_name, job_config)
 
-        channel_script_path = self.channel.push_file(script_path, self.channel.script_dir)
         if self.queue is not None:
-            cmd = "qsub -q {0} -terse {1}".format(self.queue, channel_script_path)
+            cmd = "qsub -q {0} -terse {1}".format(self.queue, script_path)
         else:
-            cmd = "qsub -terse {0}".format(channel_script_path)
+            cmd = "qsub -terse {0}".format(script_path)
         retcode, stdout, stderr = self.execute_wait(cmd)
 
         if retcode == 0:
diff --git a/parsl/providers/local/local.py b/parsl/providers/local/local.py
index f13521466a..5ecf174df2 100644
--- a/parsl/providers/local/local.py
+++ b/parsl/providers/local/local.py
@@ -32,9 +32,6 @@ class LocalProvider(ExecutionProvider, RepresentationMixin):
         Ratio of provisioned task slots to active tasks. A parallelism value of 1 represents aggressive
         scaling where as many resources as possible are used; parallelism close to 0 represents
         the opposite situation in which as few resources as possible (i.e., min_blocks) are used.
-    move_files : Optional[Bool]
-        Should files be moved? By default, Parsl will try to figure this out itself (= None).
-        If True, then will always move. If False, will never move.
     worker_init : str
         Command to be run before starting a worker, such as 'module load Anaconda; source activate env'.
     """
@@ -48,8 +45,7 @@ def __init__(self,
                  max_blocks=1,
                  worker_init='',
                  cmd_timeout=30,
-                 parallelism=1,
-                 move_files=None):
+                 parallelism=1):
         self.channel = channel
         self._label = 'local'
         self.nodes_per_block = nodes_per_block
@@ -61,7 +57,6 @@ def __init__(self,
         self.parallelism = parallelism
         self.script_dir = None
         self.cmd_timeout = cmd_timeout
-        self.move_files = move_files
 
         # Dictionary that keeps track of jobs, keyed on job_id
         self.resources = {}
@@ -83,7 +78,6 @@ def status(self, job_ids):
             if job_dict['status'] and job_dict['status'].terminal:
                 # We already checked this and it can't change after that
                 continue
-            # Script path should point to remote path if _should_move_files() is True
             script_path = job_dict['script_path']
 
             alive = self._is_alive(job_dict)
@@ -137,8 +131,6 @@ def _is_alive(self, job_dict):
 
     def _job_file_path(self, script_path: str, suffix: str) -> str:
         path = '{0}{1}'.format(script_path, suffix)
-        if self._should_move_files():
-            path = self.channel.pull_file(path, self.script_dir)
         return path
 
     def _read_job_file(self, script_path: str, suffix: str) -> str:
@@ -216,9 +208,6 @@ def submit(self, command, tasks_per_node, job_name="parsl.localprovider"):
 
         job_id = None
         remote_pid = None
-        if self._should_move_files():
-            logger.debug("Pushing start script")
-            script_path = self.channel.push_file(script_path, self.channel.script_dir)
 
         logger.debug("Launching")
         # We need to capture the exit code and the streams, so we put them in files. We also write
@@ -254,9 +243,6 @@ def submit(self, command, tasks_per_node, job_name="parsl.localprovider"):
 
         return job_id
 
-    def _should_move_files(self):
-        return (self.move_files is None and not isinstance(self.channel, LocalChannel)) or (self.move_files)
-
     def cancel(self, job_ids):
         ''' Cancels the jobs specified by a list of job ids
 
diff --git a/parsl/providers/lsf/lsf.py b/parsl/providers/lsf/lsf.py
index 8f18f5c879..b446b063a4 100644
--- a/parsl/providers/lsf/lsf.py
+++ b/parsl/providers/lsf/lsf.py
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ class LSFProvider(ClusterProvider, RepresentationMixin):
         :class:`~parsl.launchers.SingleNodeLauncher` (the default),
         :class:`~parsl.launchers.SrunLauncher`, or
         :class:`~parsl.launchers.AprunLauncher`
-    move_files : Optional[Bool]: should files be moved? by default, Parsl will try to move files.
     bsub_redirection: Bool
         Should a redirection symbol "<" be included when submitting jobs, i.e., Bsub < job_script.
     request_by_nodes: Bool
@@ -92,7 +91,6 @@ def __init__(self,
                  project=None,
                  queue=None,
                  cmd_timeout=120,
-                 move_files=True,
                  bsub_redirection=False,
                  request_by_nodes=True,
                  launcher=SingleNodeLauncher()):
@@ -112,7 +110,6 @@ def __init__(self,
         self.queue = queue
         self.cores_per_block = cores_per_block
         self.cores_per_node = cores_per_node
-        self.move_files = move_files
         self.bsub_redirection = bsub_redirection
         self.request_by_nodes = request_by_nodes
 
@@ -230,17 +227,10 @@ def submit(self, command, tasks_per_node, job_name="parsl.lsf"):
         logger.debug("Writing submit script")
         self._write_submit_script(template_string, script_path, job_name, job_config)
 
-        if self.move_files:
-            logger.debug("moving files")
-            channel_script_path = self.channel.push_file(script_path, self.channel.script_dir)
-        else:
-            logger.debug("not moving files")
-            channel_script_path = script_path
-
         if self.bsub_redirection:
-            cmd = "bsub < {0}".format(channel_script_path)
+            cmd = "bsub < {0}".format(script_path)
         else:
-            cmd = "bsub {0}".format(channel_script_path)
+            cmd = "bsub {0}".format(script_path)
         retcode, stdout, stderr = super().execute_wait(cmd)
 
         job_id = None
diff --git a/parsl/providers/pbspro/pbspro.py b/parsl/providers/pbspro/pbspro.py
index 752f504334..71c958f000 100644
--- a/parsl/providers/pbspro/pbspro.py
+++ b/parsl/providers/pbspro/pbspro.py
@@ -183,15 +183,13 @@ def submit(self, command, tasks_per_node, job_name="parsl"):
         logger.debug("Writing submit script")
         self._write_submit_script(self.template_string, script_path, job_name, job_config)
 
-        channel_script_path = self.channel.push_file(script_path, self.channel.script_dir)
-
         submit_options = ''
         if self.queue is not None:
             submit_options = '{0} -q {1}'.format(submit_options, self.queue)
         if self.account is not None:
             submit_options = '{0} -A {1}'.format(submit_options, self.account)
 
-        launch_cmd = "qsub {0} {1}".format(submit_options, channel_script_path)
+        launch_cmd = "qsub {0} {1}".format(submit_options, script_path)
         retcode, stdout, stderr = self.execute_wait(launch_cmd)
 
         job_id = None
diff --git a/parsl/providers/slurm/slurm.py b/parsl/providers/slurm/slurm.py
index d201c2f745..9b6f38b9d9 100644
--- a/parsl/providers/slurm/slurm.py
+++ b/parsl/providers/slurm/slurm.py
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ class SlurmProvider(ClusterProvider, RepresentationMixin):
         :class:`~parsl.launchers.SingleNodeLauncher` (the default),
         :class:`~parsl.launchers.SrunLauncher`, or
         :class:`~parsl.launchers.AprunLauncher`
-    move_files : Optional[Bool]: should files be moved? by default, Parsl will try to move files.
     """
 
     @typeguard.typechecked
@@ -134,7 +133,6 @@ def __init__(self,
                  worker_init: str = '',
                  cmd_timeout: int = 10,
                  exclusive: bool = True,
-                 move_files: bool = True,
                  launcher: Launcher = SingleNodeLauncher()):
         label = 'slurm'
         super().__init__(label,
@@ -152,7 +150,6 @@ def __init__(self,
         self.cores_per_node = cores_per_node
         self.mem_per_node = mem_per_node
         self.exclusive = exclusive
-        self.move_files = move_files
         self.account = account
         self.qos = qos
         self.constraint = constraint
@@ -308,14 +305,7 @@ def submit(self, command: str, tasks_per_node: int, job_name="parsl.slurm") -> s
         logger.debug("Writing submit script")
         self._write_submit_script(template_string, script_path, job_name, job_config)
 
-        if self.move_files:
-            logger.debug("moving files")
-            channel_script_path = self.channel.push_file(script_path, self.channel.script_dir)
-        else:
-            logger.debug("not moving files")
-            channel_script_path = script_path
-
-        retcode, stdout, stderr = self.execute_wait("sbatch {0}".format(channel_script_path))
+        retcode, stdout, stderr = self.execute_wait("sbatch {0}".format(script_path))
 
         if retcode == 0:
             for line in stdout.split('\n'):
diff --git a/parsl/providers/torque/torque.py b/parsl/providers/torque/torque.py
index c15591706c..7992893abb 100644
--- a/parsl/providers/torque/torque.py
+++ b/parsl/providers/torque/torque.py
@@ -189,15 +189,13 @@ def submit(self, command, tasks_per_node, job_name="parsl.torque"):
         logger.debug("Writing submit script")
         self._write_submit_script(self.template_string, script_path, job_name, job_config)
 
-        channel_script_path = self.channel.push_file(script_path, self.channel.script_dir)
-
         submit_options = ''
         if self.queue is not None:
             submit_options = '{0} -q {1}'.format(submit_options, self.queue)
         if self.account is not None:
             submit_options = '{0} -A {1}'.format(submit_options, self.account)
 
-        launch_cmd = "qsub {0} {1}".format(submit_options, channel_script_path)
+        launch_cmd = "qsub {0} {1}".format(submit_options, script_path)
         retcode, stdout, stderr = self.execute_wait(launch_cmd)
 
         job_id = None