I think it works fine as long as you're up-front about it when hiring e.g. > We get the whole company together once a year for seven days so that Automattician

I think it works fine as long as you're up-front about it when hiring e.g. > We get the whole company together once a year for seven days so that Automatticians can create bonds that influence them all year long. So far we’ve done Grand Meetups in San Francisco, California; La Paz, Mexico; Oracle, Arizona; Breckenridge, Colorado; Mont-Sainte-Anne, Québec; Seaside, Florida; Budapest, Hungary; San Diego, California; Santa Cruz, California; Park City, Utah; Whistler, Canada; and Orlando, Florida. > In addition to our all-company Grand Meetup, teams meet for five to seven days to brainstorm team-level strategy and bond in locales ranging from Boulder to Buenos Aires, Las Vegas to Lisbon, Montréal to Mexico City, and Vienna to Vietnam. If you join our merry band, expect to travel three to four weeks per year. > As a distributed company we also know how to connect with each other from afar, and consider day-to-day social communication at least as important as breaking bread in person. https://automattic.com/how-we-work/ https://automattic.com/how-we-work/