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Why a remote workforce is bad for startups
- kls 15y agoAfter being part of several remote teams I would say the dynamics are the same only the medium has changed and if you don't adapt the dynamics to the medium then you will have issue. One one team I was on everything was done in the issue tracker and email as such their was very little dynamics. On another we still had a tracker and email but we also had a developer chat room set up in Skype, as such the developers shared personal stories, interesting news and work related stuff as such the dynamics grew. I think it takes particular individuals to comprise and build a remote team but if you have them then can build just as effective of a team as all on location. The difference is that you have the added advantage of finding talent in other local markets. I think in the not too distant future it will be common wisdom that if you are not competing for talent in other markets you are not competing.