June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
9h 33m
English
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REMOTE-ONLY MANIFESTO
REMOTE-ONLY WORK PROMOTES:
- HIRING AND WORKING FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
- instead of from a central location.
- FLEXIBLE WORKING HOURS
- over set working hours.
- WRITING DOWN AND RECORDING KNOWLEDGE
- over verbal explanations.
- WRITTEN-DOWN PROCESSES
- over on-the-job training.
- PUBLIC SHARING OF INFORMATION
- over need-to-know access.
- OPENING EVERY DOCUMENT TO CHANGE BY ANYONE
- over top-down control of documents.
- ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION
- over synchronous communication.
- THE RESULTS OF WORK
- over the hours put in.
- FORMAL COMMUNICATION CHANNELS
- over informal communication channels.
While there is sometimes value in the “instead of” items, we have come to value the remote-only items more.
WHAT REMOTE-ONLY IS NOT
- As the name says, it is more than remote-friendly; it is remote-only. There is no main office or headquarters with multiple people.
- It does not mean working independently of each other. Remote-only workers work together and communicate intensely—they just do so remotely.
- Neither is it a substitute for human interaction. Coworkers still need to collaborate, have conversations, and feel part of a team.
- It is not an example of offshoring. There is no shore to hire off from.
It is simply hiring from around the world.
- It is not a management paradigm. It is a normal hierarchical organization—just one that focuses on output instead of input.
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