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> I would be really surprised to find anyone at the top of performance in any organization that isn't fully remote without resorting to Machiavellian tactics. Can confirm. Switching to a fully remote company was eye-opening. The politics are much worse than my office jobs. Everything is back-channeled. So many secret private Slack channels and exclusive in-person meetups where actual decisions are made. At least in t…
This says it. Yikes.
I've spent about 9 years working with a fully remote company. The back channels exist, mostly as video calls in slack, but to me that's no different than a conversation in a quiet corner of the office. You can usually sniff out who talks to who and what the relationships are like.
I find you do have to call people though, if you isolate yourself in a remote company it's probably even more, well, isolating. No one's going to accidentally bump into you.