[toomuchtodo]

There is well over $100b in enterprise value in remote first companies. Are they not productive? It seems like they very much are.

Examples (non exhaustive list in no particular order) that came to mind: AirBnB, Allstate Insurance (divested from their Chicago headquarters), Automattic, Dropbox, GitHub, Gitlab, Hashicorp, PagerDuty, Zapier

How much work someone accomplishes is a function of effective management and objective measurement, not where they sit. If you have to sit over someone’s shoulder for the work to get done, you’ve already failed. Your hiring system is optimizing for autonomous folks who can operate in unstructured work ideally. People who don’t want to work can do that equally well from both home or the office.

https://builtin.com/awards/fully-remote/2023/best-places-to-...

(remote for a decade as both IC and leadership of team of ~10, including a tenure at a fully remote org)