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Re:Ask HN: What are the biggest challenges preventing startu... by hashkb on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:49PM (#17022408)
This takes extraordinary discipline on the part of the in-office team. Fortunately, everything that's good for a remote-first culture is also just good for communication in general. A culture of documenting everything, living in public, and over-communicating is good for any company; and burning those habits into teammates levels them up for life.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the biggest challenges preventing startu... by chris11 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @01:23PM (#17022699)
>This takes extraordinary discipline on the part of the in-office team. Fortunately, everything that's good for a remote-first culture is also just good for communication in general.

I think it's even harder for companies that have open open offices or are doing Agile. Those two things usually mean the companies are explicitly stressing in-person collaboration. In-person communication isn't a bad thing by itself, but I think that explicitly valuing in-person communication ends up making remote work harder.

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