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Jesse Powell
@jespow
As someone who has led remote-first companies for 20 years, I can say that it works and 2020 was different. I’m sure it was hard for unprepared companies and people to abruptly make the switch to remote, especially with kids stuck at home. Ignore noob data, study the veterans.
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Derek Thompson
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Study of 61,000 Microsoft employees in 2020 finds remote work caused “collaboration to be more static and siloed…a decrease in synchronous communication … and [made it harder for] employees to acquire and share new information across the network.” nature.com/articles/s4156
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
The biggest thing is hiring people who have selected themselves in to this model because it suits them vs being forced in to it. A lot of people just aren’t compatible with remote. Also, a lot of managers just aren’t prepared to evaluate work in the absence of observing bodies.
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@raoultesla
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Principal Powell, your experiences did not involve donut addictions, nor the parking office politics that needed meditation from Dept. to Dept. Sshshsh Redmond loves their lemmings.
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Georges Auberger
@gauberger
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10 years leading distributed teams. can concur, model works great but you have to make everything remote first. also require transition from “butt in seats” to results oriented culture.
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naresh narayan
@nareshnarayan19
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The headline could have read, “Microsoft has a preponderance of “office workers” as employees, who bathe in that culture! WFH doesn’t suit them!😂😂🤷🏻self selection is amazing!
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Leafi
@LeafiApp
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what are you trying to convey ? … you became more cryptographic. No certainty! Are you in for 100% remote or out ? keep your opinion binary. 1 or 0
James J. Griffin 🚢
@jamesjgriffin
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Couldn't agree with this statement anymore if I wanted to. Been doing since I was 23. About to be 39 this week. Remote collaboration the entire time. And now we've got the bandwidth for everyone to do it if the kids could go out play.