Ask HN: What companies are truly remote-first? What companies have committed to be truly remote-first (no hybrid-model companies or ones where leadership is non-remote)? |
Ask HN: What companies are truly remote-first? What companies have committed to be truly remote-first (no hybrid-model companies or ones where leadership is non-remote)? |
> To qualify as a distributed company work must be done primarily online and in a remote-first, remote-friendly fashion. Periodic employee meet-ups or corporate retreats are okay, and having office location(s) is okay, but leadership and corporate decision-making cannot run out of a centralized face-to-face headquarters while some percentage of employees opt-in to working remotely.
Recently, they released a new list of distributed companies for 2020 [1].
[0]: https://www.amursoftware.com/blog/what-are-the-biggest-distr...
[1]: https://www.amursoftware.com/biggest-distributed-companies
For example, let's say you have a team of 5 people, 4 people live in city A and 1 person lives in city B. It might be the case that the 4 people in city A meet up every week in person. They'll eventually form a closer working relationship with each other potentially leaving the person in city B out. Hashicorp's decision might be to try to prevent these kind of situations (for what it's worth I've heard about this Hashicorp rule by talking to people but I can't find anything online about it).