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Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by sandworm101 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @12:07PM (#18442581)
Last year i switched from totally remote to totally in-office. (From law to defense.) Now I cannot even access my work email from home. It is great. Bosses never expect an email to be answered immediatly. Sometimes i have shifts where i must man a paticular desk for certain hours, but mostly i set my own schedule. We have a gym, including a pool, in the office that we are expected to use on company time. Even going to the dentist is on company time. It is a unique office culture that i never expected. Until i got here i had no idea how unhappy i was while working remote.
Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by williamchia on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @12:35PM (#18442844)
> Bosses never expect an email to be answered immediately.

Sounds like wherever you were working before was doing it wrong.

I work remote and no one ever expects immediate email or slack. It is because the whole company is remote that this is the case - you can't have this type of expectation when folks are in every time zone across the globe.

Although I love remote, it's not for everyone. There's a lot to be said for perks like gym, dental, etc. It's really nice that you found a good fit!

Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by YorickPeterse on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @12:35PM (#18442850)
At least in case of GitLab, many of this is allowed (or even promoted) to do during company time. For example, if you go to the dentist for one hour you don't need to somehow make up for that. The same goes with Emails: the remote first culture means basically everybody fully expects it to take at least several hours before they get a reply.

In other words: I think this is more about the company, and less about remote versus non remote.