Not trying to be snarky, but because I think it'll be meaningful to executives: What's the largest profitable remote-only company? Sure, your Gitlabs, Elastics, Sonatypes, etc, are remote-only, but they're still in VC-funded, money-losing, growth mode, AFAIK. Are there profitable remote-only companies that a more conservative, maybe even non-tech company could look at to get a warm fuzzy rather than being able to dis…
$1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
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Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
#32It really looks like this guy found his calling, good for him! I'm impressed his managed to keep his organization healthy with 700 remote employees, that takes some real business/management talent. In my own business, we are a remote team of 6 and we do pretty well. The way we've made it work so far is by doing very little collaboration, and instead opting to each have our own focus with little overlap. There are tim…
Thanks! What we do for remote brainstorming is using indentation in Google Docs. We find that most ideas can be represented by a tree structure. We use indentation to indicate what is connected. You can't easily do arrows between different ideas but I've seen it work on almost every case.
BTW We're trying to bring real-time collaboration to GitLab issues so you can do the same in GitLab. I spend some time on that this weekend https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/21473#note_301...
Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
#33Not trying to be snarky, but because I think it'll be meaningful to executives: What's the largest profitable remote-only company? Sure, your Gitlabs, Elastics, Sonatypes, etc, are remote-only, but they're still in VC-funded, money-losing, growth mode, AFAIK. Are there profitable remote-only companies that a more conservative, maybe even non-tech company could look at to get a warm fuzzy rather than being able to dis…
WordPress perhaps?
Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
#34I'd be happy to answer any questions about remote work. We've published extensively about this subject https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/ and today we released a remote work emergency toolkit https://twitter.com/darrenmurph/status/1237771768020054016
Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work for one Or at least one where remote-only is quite common. Side effect : I have no idea how many coworkers I have, just know the team I work with normally and a few outside. It's a tech company, but it's an manufacturing one. I think one of the important questions though is how does the hiring/firing and maintenance of relationships between employees (including management) be handled when face-to-face is over…
This doesn't sound right. In a remote environment it's crucial to be able to find people. You need a good directory/orgchart. In an office you can walk over to section and ask. In a global chat room or such this is harder.
There are directories. I just haven't needed them - but then I'm mostly a dev on some lists of products.
There is no global chat room though, but there are optional "ask for help here" lists where all the team leads are likely to be paying attention.
Communication protocols are one of those good things to be sorting out too, from management perspective. I've had this job for a few years now, and am pretty happy.
Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
#36I think gitlab has a huge advantage in remote work as in their mission is clearly understood by their employees ( to clone github.com). Its a very outsourcable class of problem where requirements are clearly understood and employees aren't required to really come up anything new or innovative. I am yet to see a 100% remote company thats doing something brand new and innovative.
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Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
#37Not trying to be snarky, but because I think it'll be meaningful to executives: What's the largest profitable remote-only company? Sure, your Gitlabs, Elastics, Sonatypes, etc, are remote-only, but they're still in VC-funded, money-losing, growth mode, AFAIK. Are there profitable remote-only companies that a more conservative, maybe even non-tech company could look at to get a warm fuzzy rather than being able to dis…
Red Hat is about 50% remote, and was plenty profitable before being acquired by IBM last year. Edit: And is still profitable now. It sounds like I was saying it was only profitable before being acquired :-)
the op is asking for remote only companies. thousands of companies do partial remote work like red hat
Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
#38Not trying to be snarky, but because I think it'll be meaningful to executives: What's the largest profitable remote-only company? Sure, your Gitlabs, Elastics, Sonatypes, etc, are remote-only, but they're still in VC-funded, money-losing, growth mode, AFAIK. Are there profitable remote-only companies that a more conservative, maybe even non-tech company could look at to get a warm fuzzy rather than being able to dis…
Red Hat is about 50% remote, and was plenty profitable before being acquired by IBM last year. Edit: And is still profitable now. It sounds like I was saying it was only profitable before being acquired :-)
Is the acquisition affecting the number of remote positions Red Hat have?
Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
#39given the majority of coworkers are now remote due to coronavirus, I hate it. I miss just grabbing someone to my computer and have a chat about my problem. now I'll have to arrange a meeting, share screen and all, do you see it, do you hear me?
plus in meetings remote workers rarely get the chance to speak. otherwise opinionated colleagues are now silent.
Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Red Hat is about 50% remote, and was plenty profitable before being acquired by IBM last year. Edit: And is still profitable now. It sounds like I was saying it was only profitable before being acquired :-)
Is the acquisition affecting the number of remote positions Red Hat have?
Not to my knowledge.