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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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