Re:$1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
by ng7j5d9 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:07PM
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> If you're not trying to be snarky avoid stuff like "dalliance for tech bros lighting money on fire"
Haha, that's fair. To be clear, I believe remote work is generally more productive and represents the future of most knowledge work. I was trying to put words into the mouth of an imaginary conservative executive who is afraid to go the remote path there.
Re:$1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
by throwaway5752 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:16PM
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I did take your comment in the intended spirit! My response were answers in that same spirit (points you might give that executive to say "we're a remote organization already").
Re:$1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
by birdyrooster on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:56PM
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"Not trying to be snarky" is a sarcastic warning that snark is, indeed, incoming
I think you can look at subsets of companies for precedent.
- Regional sales staff are very frequently distributed by territory (obviously not remote in customer contact, usually) and work out of their homes. This is common across many companies in and out of tech.
- Distributed teams where you have smaller satellite offices where cross-team functions are remote and coordinated across time zones, which have to be remotely coordinated. This is almost universal in tech in my experience, and widespread outside of tech.
- Hybrid companies where some staff are fully remote or people have a certain number of days per week that can be remote. This is so common as to be universal in tech, in my experience (particularly for support rotation/SRE work).
Fully remote work, to me, seems just minor extension of all of those existing practices.