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Am I crazy ? ..didn't GitHub pretty much pioneer working from home (called "remote work" then) way way way before the pandemic? Definitely before 2016. They wer

Am I crazy ? ..didn't GitHub pretty much pioneer working from home (called "remote work" then) way way way before the pandemic? Definitely before 2016. They were one of the first to scale salaries to where you lived and set a lot of the common industry standards. It was all about dogfooding their own product and working remote using Github itself. They were all about NOT having an office. I never even realized they had an office, let alone a famous one. I remember people would dream about working for Github b/c of the flexibility, The article doesn't even mention this in passing ...

hakube 3y ago
Git itself pioneered work from home/anywhere when developers are working on Linux in the early days
vincentkriek 3y ago
I think that was gitlab
- fastball 3y ago
  OP is definitely thinking of GitLab.
- jeltz 3y ago
  Yup, it almost certainly was. I know a guy who started working at Gitlab back then.
gumby 3y ago
> didn't [GitLab] pretty much pioneer working from home (called "remote work" then) way way way before the pandemic? We were doing this in the early 90s (even before the WWW). Foosball tables, fire engines, beds to nap in, kitchens full of food: none of that is somehow magically new
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  For me 90s job hunting everything looked Regus style corporate
  - gumby 3y ago
    That's a shame. 1980s and 1990s had people wearing suits, sure, but also companies in rambling old houses of collections of networked apartments, kitchens with cookie dough, beer and cartons of cigarettes in the fridge, and all sorts of other amenities. Honestly the dot com boom folks seemed relatively sedate in comparison.