And while some metropolitan areas offer certain lifestyle perks, other big-city issues-like high costs-of-living-will drive potential employees away. Some of us do our best work late at night, while others prefer to get up early and spend the late afternoons away from the desk.
Neither is Silicon Valley or the city where your company is based. "Not only do we not have to be in the same spot to work together, we also don't have to work at the same time to work together."ĩ-to-5 isn't for everyone. "The big transition with a distributed workforce is going from synchronous to asynchronous collaboration," they write. Thus, it's only sensible and wise to live in an area where you can do your best work."įried and Heinemeier Hansson offer another upside to remote work in their book on the topic. "The key to remote work is living where you work best," says Neil Patel in Entrepreneur Magazine "Your environment does impact how you work. The freedom to work from anywhere you desire is an attractive benefit-but it's only true freedom when you can also work whenever you'd like. It's only sensible and wise to live in an area where you can do your best work. "It can quickly lead to burnout." Pro: Freedom of time and place boosts productivity "The problems with remote work are more apparent if the team expects remote team members to be available at the company's time zone rather than theirs," says Mutahhir Ali Hayat, a Pakistan-based developer who has worked on a number of remote teams. It's possible to hire people around the globe and still have your whole team working 9-to-5 at your office's time zone-after all, plenty of people work night shifts-but it's not optimal. As Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg wrote, "If 95% of great programmers aren't in the U.S., and an even higher percentage not in the Bay Area, set up your company to take advantage of that fact as a strength, not a weakness." But hiring from anywhere only works with one crucial element: a time shift.
That's music to the ears of metropolitan-based startups, like those in Silicon Valley and London, fighting to hire great employees in a crowded market, as well as companies not based near urban centers. "Letting people work remotely is about getting access to the best people wherever they are," write Basecamp co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson in their book Remote: Office Not Required. It's easier to value output over time-in-seat 5 pros of a distributed teamįreedom of time and place boosts productivity
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Here's a sneak peek, but keep reading for tips on how to make the most of the pros and overcome the cons that crop up when the world is your office. Your team will likely get more done, and you'll be able to provide better support for your customers-but you'll also need to figure out how to make the world feel a bit smaller.Īfter years of working remotely-for companies in India, Canada, Australia, and the U.S.-I've learned a lot. And that's ok on a distributed team, as long as you can manage the time shift. The best job for you might not be in your hometown, and you might work better when you aren't shackled to a 9-to-5 workday. The rest of the year, we manage to work together across 17 time zones, using Slack, Zoom, and some sheer effort to all stay connected. Twice a year, the Zapier team gets together at a company retreat.
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