<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>redleggedfrog</author><text>&amp;quot;Your remote team is my company&amp;#x27;s opportunity.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Purely anecdotal based on my own experience, but at my company we have some people who work in an office and lots more that work remotely.  The in office staff contribute more ideas, work, fixes, and functional software than the remote teams by a factor of 4 or 5, or sometimes, depending on the in office worker, 10 times.  Those are hard numbers right out of our project management system.  It&amp;#x27;s simply easier to hash out hard problems in person that it is on a remote team, and the context is key.  You have all the little asides, ah ha&amp;#x27;s! and comments collected up that provide a better picture than any remote team can get unless they have their headsets on the whole time.&lt;p&gt;Not that you couldn&amp;#x27;t have a good remote team - I just think the methods of communication available are not best suited to our monkey brains.  We&amp;#x27;re social animal, and we work best socially.&lt;p&gt;What this has allowed us to do is beat out other development teams, both inside and outside the company.  Hasn&amp;#x27;t gone unnoticed - we also get the most important projects and are paid the most.  When it matters, the in-house people get the work.&lt;p&gt;YMMV, of course, this is just one place, but I think a lot of people who want to work at home aren&amp;#x27;t interested in their success as making their work life easier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>Pretty strong chance the “noticers” are on-prem, not remote, and may be (literally) prejudiced.*&lt;p&gt;Also, bit of indication in “hard numbers out of project mgmt system” and “all the little asides, ahas…” coupled with “unless they have their headsets on the whole time” that your company may have optimized for local ideas and local capture.&lt;p&gt;Consider (a) ensuring project and idea capture tools are “remote first” oriented (tools that work remotely work just fine in office, inverse is not true), such as dropping whiteboards and using digital collaborative tools for whiteboarding even locally, e.g. …&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    - Excalidraw+
    - Microsoft Whiteboard
    - Samsung Flip2
    - Microsoft Surface Hub
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
… and (b) experimenting with elevated telepresence beyond just the green&amp;#x2F;yellow&amp;#x2F;red dot:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    - https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.remotion.com&amp;#x2F;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
You have to be radical about this: “If it didn’t happen in [remote-first tool], it didn’t happen.”&lt;p&gt;This was the single most important contributor to the culture change at firms I’ve helped go fully remote since the 90s.  The nanosecond something elevates from chit chat into an action, everyone in the company needs to gate-keep: “Could you please share&amp;#x2F;ask&amp;#x2F;direct that in [the digital place]?”&lt;p&gt;The second most important was ensuring [the digital place] is frictionless, using social media habit apps as benchmarks, not, say, Jira.&lt;p&gt;In my experience, after initial chaos, then learning, then crossing a tipping point, productivity went through the roof, and following that, these firms absolutely &lt;i&gt;spanked&lt;/i&gt; on-prem only firms at caliber of talent and pace of delivery of outcomes into client hands.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I think a lot of people who want to work at home aren’t interested in their success&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;* There it is.</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>redleggedfrog</author><text>&amp;quot;Your remote team is my company&amp;#x27;s opportunity.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Purely anecdotal based on my own experience, but at my company we have some people who work in an office and lots more that work remotely.  The in office staff contribute more ideas, work, fixes, and functional software than the remote teams by a factor of 4 or 5, or sometimes, depending on the in office worker, 10 times.  Those are hard numbers right out of our project management system.  It&amp;#x27;s simply easier to hash out hard problems in person that it is on a remote team, and the context is key.  You have all the little asides, ah ha&amp;#x27;s! and comments collected up that provide a better picture than any remote team can get unless they have their headsets on the whole time.&lt;p&gt;Not that you couldn&amp;#x27;t have a good remote team - I just think the methods of communication available are not best suited to our monkey brains.  We&amp;#x27;re social animal, and we work best socially.&lt;p&gt;What this has allowed us to do is beat out other development teams, both inside and outside the company.  Hasn&amp;#x27;t gone unnoticed - we also get the most important projects and are paid the most.  When it matters, the in-house people get the work.&lt;p&gt;YMMV, of course, this is just one place, but I think a lot of people who want to work at home aren&amp;#x27;t interested in their success as making their work life easier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I work a sort of hybrid model.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve seen issues and topics that we decide &amp;quot;Let&amp;#x27;s work this one out when we&amp;#x27;re in the office.&amp;quot;  We schedule it, and what might take several video conferences and endless chats ... suddenly takes one meeting and the solution solves a bunch of other things.&lt;p&gt;I agree everyone should find their best way, but for us sometimes there&amp;#x27;s more of a free flow of information, everyone is engaged on that one issue more in person than when remote.   When it comes to some topics it&amp;#x27;s just much faster and the result is more complete in person.</text></comment>