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I guess you're looking for Gitlab then. They even documented their work culture and publicly share it: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/reso

• jasode 7y ago
  >I guess you're looking for Gitlab then. Gitlab would be the opposite example of an influential company the business decision makers are looking for. Gitlab has gotten $350M in VC money but they haven't yet demonstrated high profitability. And so far, they haven't "won" over Github. The business world hasn't yet seen a trendsetting and influential company that has shown obvious evidence of competitive advantages because of remote work. The evidence includes beating the competition. Examples of influential companies where their business practices spread would be Ford Motors and the assembly line improving manufacturing efficiency and therefore being copied by other manufacturers. Or Toyota's lean manufacturing and JIT inventory management reducing defects and saving money and also widely copied. Or Google's single-repository and Facebook's trunk-based-instead-of-branch-based development with continuous deployment to production being widely copied. The Gitlab/Automattic/Basecamp companies are not influential enough (not big enough, not succesful enough, etc) ... so their remote work culture isn't copied like the previous practices of Ford/Toyota/Google/Facebook.
  • nscalf 7y ago
    How about Stripe? They recently announced that their 5th engineering hub would be fully remote: https://stripe.com/blog/remote-hub https://stripe.com/blog/remote-hub Though I would probably argue with this article to some extent, the strength of remote isn't as big a sell for this large influential companies. I think the real selling point is that you can get high level talent form anywhere, the Googles and Facebooks of the work already have access to that talent, and have hubs all over the world. I would argue remote work is a bit of a bottom up movement, and we won't really see it shift to top down unless there is another wide market adoption that it becomes a requirement by potential employees. And as long as you're offering at least 50% more than competitors, I don't see that happening.
    • jasode 7y ago
      >How about Stripe? They recently announced that their 5th engineering hub would be fully remote: https://stripe.com/blog/remote-hub https://stripe.com/blog/remote-hub Stripe is doing what many other older companies already do: have a core of on-site office workers but also open a satellite office that has remote workers. Google and Microsoft also have pockets of remote workers. Again, I don't think Stripe's 5th hub being "remote" is going to radically convince a lot of business managers. But that blog announcement is recently dated May 2 2019 so it's too early to predict its potential influence. Do you think it will really turn the heads of business leaders? [EDIT correction to Gitlab amount above; funding was $168 million not $350 million: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab-com#section-overview https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab-com#section-o...]
    • markdown 7y ago
      > engineering hub > fully remote Is it just me or does this make no sense? Does Stripe Inc. not know what the word hub means?
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  • rhizome 7y ago
    >And so far, they haven't "won" over Github. Zero-sum is the only measure?