<story><title>Remote startups will win the war for top talent</title><url>https://future.com/remote-startups-hire-top-talent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>&amp;quot;A study conducted on the main campus of a Fortune 500 company found that just 10 percent of all communications occurred between employees whose desks were more than 500 meters apart. This suggests that once companies span multiple floors, buildings, or campuses, they’ve already lost much of the collaborative value of being “in the office” together.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This point often seems to get missed. If you&amp;#x27;re at a large company, you&amp;#x27;re often working with people on different floors, buildings, offices, countries. I want to be co-located with the people I work with often just isn&amp;#x27;t an option at larger companies even if many people come into an office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbdumas</author><text>This cuts both ways though. Working from home my &amp;quot;circle of communication&amp;quot; has gotten much smaller than it ever was before, because I don&amp;#x27;t run in to people.</text></comment>
<story><title>Remote startups will win the war for top talent</title><url>https://future.com/remote-startups-hire-top-talent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>&amp;quot;A study conducted on the main campus of a Fortune 500 company found that just 10 percent of all communications occurred between employees whose desks were more than 500 meters apart. This suggests that once companies span multiple floors, buildings, or campuses, they’ve already lost much of the collaborative value of being “in the office” together.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This point often seems to get missed. If you&amp;#x27;re at a large company, you&amp;#x27;re often working with people on different floors, buildings, offices, countries. I want to be co-located with the people I work with often just isn&amp;#x27;t an option at larger companies even if many people come into an office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shmatt</author><text>This hits home for me for a completely different reason. I&amp;#x27;m currently hybrid and notice some issues do get fixed faster in the office following that same 90% rule&lt;p&gt;In the office people don&amp;#x27;t mind tapping their neighbor on the shoulder 10 times a day to ask how to find&amp;#x2F;do something. On Slack they feel self conscious about zooming&amp;#x2F;slacking with someone 10 times in 1 day with questions. It&amp;#x27;s more about being in your head and feeling like a nuisance online vs. in office, than office being better than remote&lt;p&gt;This also makes our office days pretty dead in terms of actual progress on projects. Our stronger engineers work much more efficiently at home</text></comment>