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When building remote teams, we've tried to hire within common geographic areas, so the regional team can meet once per week at a Starbucks or co-working space o
by matchagaucho 7y ago
When building remote teams, we've tried to hire within common geographic areas, so the regional team can meet once per week at a Starbucks or co-working space of their choosing.
The commute may be up to a 1 hour for some members, but it addresses the isolation challenge.
We also try to bring the entire company together in-person once per year an at annual tech conference.
- Draiken 7y agoSo, not really remote. More like a "work from home" style. A good remote culture allows someone in any timezone to be part of it or it loses the greatest advantage of remote working. If working together is the only social activity the person has, he's not cut out for remote work.
- matchagaucho 7y agoWork from home, but primarily accountable to teams in other timezones. The regional teams coordinate their own in-person activities. Culturally, the concept of remote work is not well understood in countries like the Philippines and India. The occasional social "meeting" is more to convince their family members they have a "real job" with physical place of business.
- stallmanite 7y agoI would think skeptical families would be convinced by the (hopefully) fat checks in the mail.