[teunispeters]

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 video conferencing only, usually? How do you measure who's doing well - and encourage them to continue? And nudge ones not doing well - and let them go if they're really not fitting?

And of course maintaining work/life balances is hard....

[johannes1234321]

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.

[teunispeters]

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.