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Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely by IshKebab on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:29AM (#20498922)
Have you ever had to deal with employees that "work remotely" but don't get a lot done (perhaps because they're spending all day on HN)? How do you detect that & deal with it?
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Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely by sytse on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:41AM (#20499037)
Identifying and taking action on underperformance is essential to running a great company and we have a lot of information on how we do this on https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/underperformance/

I don't think that working remotely is the main cause of this. There are people underperforming in many companies who work on-site.

I'll be the last person to say something about spending a lot of time on HN since I do so myself. In general we don't want to talk about how you spend your time but about your output. We measure results and not hours https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#measure-results-no...

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Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely by 0xfeba on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:37PM (#20500322)
How do you detect when someone doesn't get a lot done that doesn't work remotely?
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Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely by brianwawok on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:38AM (#20498997)
Why would it be any different than someone in the office that didn't get a lot done?
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