Why We Chose Distributed Work
Update: 2021-08-05
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Show Notes
- [0:00:00 ] Episode Summary | Intro
- [0:02:25 ] Remote Work: Pros/Cons
- How we’ve done it, and how you can learn from our mistakes.
- There are options.
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- The pandemic has made a huge portion of people realize their jobs can be done from home.
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- Not everyone is going back to the office, and for valid reasons.
- The pros far outweigh the cons.
- Comfort and convenience go a long way toward being productive.
- [0:06:40 ] Why We Chose Distributed
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- We started as a completely co-located business.
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- Think 1/3rd....or 1/10th of Silicon Valley and you have the right idea.
- In late 2019 we decided it was time for a shift.
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- Being pre-pandemic, the thing that made us kick-off a new normal was quite simply that our office became less desirable.
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- And inconvenient parking (aka no parking) led to distributed considerations...seriously.
- We were always remote friendly, but more people started working off-site: from local coffee shops, gastro-pubs, their homes.
- We misunderstood business for productivity.
- Being co-located was actually instigating poor communication.
- Jeremy’s 15+ years of Distributed Work Experience
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- How his experience encouraged a dramatic change in where and how we conducted business.
- We also brought on a new team through an acquisition, which only further exemplified the need for this change.
- We chose distributed over hybrid for a reason.
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- We did attempt a hybrid approach for a brief time, but we were slowly learning that even it wasn’t the best People First fit for our business.
- [0:18:34 ] ...and then the pandemic happened.
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- Converting processes, communication, and our approach to clarity and collaboration had to be rethought and reconsidered from almost every angle.
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- And we continue to refine and iterate even now.
- There was a huge mental shift for James and Kevin in how they had to think about what they were doing, and how to lead a distributed team-- simply how to make it work.
- The dangers of the hybrid space stem from communication issues.
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- The people not co-located often pay for this by not receiving the clarity and collaboration that co-located team members were.
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- The answer was moving to 100% distributed.
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- Which we’ll unpack in the next episode of Adventures in Businessing.
- [0:24:31 ] Closing Thoughts, and one additional thing to NOT do if you plan to shift to distributed work.
- Don’t jump the gun, and try to plan out a timeline for what going distributed could/would look like, and how it might affect individuals, and teams, for better and worse.
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