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Your latest $0.02 on Remote vs In-Person? Working on a collection with thoughts from Elon Musk, @jc and others - Will update with your responses 🔥

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If work is in-person, if I spend the time driving to the office, I better expect all my coworkers there If that's not true, full remote is the only other option Hybrid is the worst of both worlds

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for pre-PMF, working in-person benefits are supremely better unless level of candidate quality is monumentally better from other locations. In that case, have just seen hybrid. I think once you get to PMF & are scaling up from beyond 15-20 ish employees, more remote-oriented in process / structure prob better

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Anecdotal, but I have noticed a massive increase in empathy between the Stickies team once we spent 1-2 weeks in person. It's hard to "give people the benefit of the doubt" without spending irl time together. It's in our DNA. We're social animals. Remote work goes against our biological coding.

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In our company, our staff is on-site on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Home office on Tuesday and Thursday. Our consultants : depends on clients policy. Most of them are hybrid. None are full remote. None are full on site. Thing is: forced hybrid sucks most of the time. Also, policy driven sucks. Culture’s paramount.

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Remote is harder to set up but scales better once it's working. If everyone is in the same office then you can depend on water cooler conversation to keep people informed up to 100ish headcount. If you're fully remote then you need to be *much* more intentional *much* sooner.

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Maybe Im Wasabi〽️

There’s an interesting thread here on who benefits from in-person (assuming the workspace is a typical open concept office without real, private work-spaces.) There’s ample evidence that open spaces reduce productivity & performance, cause greater stress & anxiety, particularly for “sensitive” and introverted

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Used to be really flexible at Transpose but recently come to realize there are major productivity losses from hybrid. Remote orgs need remote-first cultures. Personally, seeing everyone in the office every day is motivating and productive also.

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Lots of high-quality answers in this thread. I wonder if it's shareable as a link (viewable in browser)?

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Brent Fitzgerald

An intense in-person team will not move faster than an equally intense remote team. But it’s easier to create intensity in-person. And for cult-of-personality style leaders, creating intensity is their special sauce. So such leaders will prefer in-person because it makes them more effective.

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False dichotomy don’t you think? Every company is going to be on a spectrum of variables. Made this for Airbnb at one point https://i.imgur.com/CpiCuCw.jpg

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Remote is the same or better for project execution *if your workers are goal based self starters* - In person is exponentially better for brainstorming, ideation, and debates

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much more efficient, productive, and enjoyable in person. productivity probably lowest in my own home bc lack of work/life separation

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Reposting my comments on it from HN: The loss of cognitive overhead of dealing with a physical workspace with distractions abound has to be countered with a new cognitive overhead – putting initiative forward in reaching out to coworkers, setting up regular 1:1s to just chat.

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Dulitha Wijewantha

I build Remote Teams for companies and this is my take. The core team should do a mix of remote + in person in the early days. When the organization is bigger than 5 people you have to decide which teams should be remote and which teams shouldn’t. IMO - there would soon be a position call Head of Remote work

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1-2 days per week in person, the rest remote. If triaging, in person until resolved.

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@corporatefilth.eth

You can get away with remote in most situations but you’ll probably just find yourself being outperformed by IRL competitors

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The best work our team has done is in-person. We build things in VR, we can get our team to feel as in-person as possible… but actual IRL work is irreplaceable in my opinion.

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Personally, remote. Unless everybody's going in for a specific purpose, 89% of those meetings can be emails/Zoom calls

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In-Person is more impactful at earlier stage, where there is less process and more volatility in day-to-day. At a startup, sitting next to people and general accessibility allows better navigation of this ambiguity.

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