Working Remotely

We started out as a remote company, and our remote work policy is developing organically as we grow.

Our policy isn’t formally written down but everyone knows that as long as they get the assigned work completed and have a degree...

Remote work was natural for us. As we continue to grow our available workspace inventory we can work from more places...

Absolutely. One of our biggest assets is our company culture, and we work hard to cultivate it. It starts with hiring...

Absolutely! A company culture is embedded throughout everything the company does, not a result of all employees being in the same...

We have a strong company culture, and we are 100 percent remote. We do this by making sure our company core values...

We have Slack channels dedicated to all sorts of interests, from fitness to cooking to travel. Our teams meet anywhere from daily to weekly...

Our online forum is an important part of our company, a place where everyone can share ideas and chat—a virtual...

We have a place for business communication, but also places where silly notes and “bonding” is encouraged.  We can share baby...

I suggest that just because a distributed organizational structure has worked well for us, it may not be the right decision...

The day you have your first remote employee is the day all of the employees working with that employee need to start thinking and...

Being remote-first isn’t the same as remote friendly or ability to work from home. I don’t consider companies who have a handful...

Working cross-time zones can occasionally be tough with the development crew. Sometimes if we have a problem on our end, we may have to...

Certainly, communication is vital. When you’re in the same office together, you have more natural, unplanned meetings and from those come some of...

As we began remotely and scaled to over 600 employees, we have grown with the business. As technology has evolved, we have also moved forward –...

Our internal wiki is at the top of the list. We use it as a virtual watercooler (think sports smack talk and podcast...

Skype, Video Conference, Basecamp/Asana, and of course Email. We also use tools like Tinypulse for soliciting consistent feedback and sending “cheers” to team...

Slack! I couldn’t imagine communicating as well as we do today without Slack. Our systems (finance, servers, schedules) all integrate...

When Automattic first started, everyone reported to Matt (Mullenweg, our founder). When we reached about 50 people, we divided into teams. The teams have evolved...

Advances in technology have made communication between team members – and with our clients – faster, easier, and more reliable.

The most noticeable change for me has been the size of the company and the effect that has on team (and inter-team) dynamics. When...

This is likely the largest challenge we face as a remote company.  I don’t like making people stay up late...

We have a very social and collaborative culture, where we talk about what we’re doing and what we’re up...

Slack and JIRA—the platform we use to track development tasks—are asynchronous tools, allowing us to manage communication even with...