The Five Levels of Remote Work — and why you’re probably at Level 2

By Medium - 2020-11-06

Description

COVID-19 has forced companies the world over to enact — or create — remote working protocols. The likes of Box, Amazon, Airbnb, Facebook…

Summary

  • The Five Levels of Remote Work — and why you’re probably at Level 2 COVID-19 has forced companies the world over to enact — or create — remote working protocols.
  • Automattic When it comes to swimming in the deep end of the remote working pool, few companies are doing it better than Automattic — the company behind Wordpress, which powers 35% of all websites on the internet.
  • The company does not have an office, with its employees collaborating almost exclusively online.
  • With an aversion to ‘jumping on calls’ at a whim, and a preference for asynchronous communication (more on that later), most of Automattic’s communications is text-based, and so articulate and timely articulation becomes key.

 

Topics

  1. Management (0.44)
  2. Security (0.13)
  3. Machine_Learning (0.09)

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