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I love that 37signals is doing this. The big question is how much does this scale? I hope this is addressed in the new book. Having less than 50 employees all
by avenger123 13y ago
I love that 37signals is doing this.
The big question is how much does this scale? I hope this is addressed in the new book.
Having less than 50 employees allows the flexibility of doing many things differently. I would argue that this is one of them.
I don't know what the magical number is for size of a company where working remotely becomes a negative investment.
The bias with 37signals is very strong. They actively seek talent and find people that are not only able to work remotely but enjoy doing so. It also works well to have staff that can work 24 hours across time zones.
How relevant is this to a company with 1000 employees that is not technology related? I can't really answer that definitely but to say that based on my experience, not too much.
- rimantas 13y agoMySQL AB worked this way with and it worked quite well (very well, imho). 70% of the staff worked remotely. IRC and company meetings helped a lot. I met my boss after 5 months in the company and that was not the record :) Mårten Mickos' interview about this: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/03/07/1826212/ http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/03/07/1826212/ BTW, if anoyone is looking for remote iOS/RoR developer drop me a line ;)