If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you shouldn’t have hired them

Re:If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you sh... by specialp on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:21PM (#13464438)

I visited Fog Creek in NYC once and as you know Joel Spolsky is a very big advocate on giving devs a good work environment. However he is also a big advocate of hiring good people no matter where they live. They had a policy that they had to discuss everything in chat or teleconference from what I saw. They said that despite being a door or 2 down from someone they wanted to talk to the forum of discussion had to be online for the sake of the remotes too.

If it isn't like this (and most places aren't like that) you are going to miss out on things when not in the office.

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Re:If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you sh... by joncalhoun on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:24PM (#13466708)

As someone who has worked remotely a great deal, this claim is generally true. A team is either remote-first, or full-time remote employees won't work well.

Notice that I said team. You can still have a remote team inside of a mostly office-going company and it ends up being similar to a satellite office for a regular company.

Eg Google has many satellite offices, so they could arguably have "remote" be one of those "offices". I don't see this ever actually happening, but they could do it if they make sure that team is remote-first.

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Re:If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you sh... by arkitaip on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:12PM (#13467118)

THANK YOU for the idea of remote first. It seems like mobile first in that you take what used to be the second priority and make it a first priority and in the process get most if not all of the first priority.

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Re:If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you sh... by JBiserkov on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:39PM (#13464636)

That is a very important distinction, between "remote" and "distributed" a.k.a. "remote-first", "remote-only" and "all-hands-remote-even-if-not-really"

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