Remote Workers
topic on 7 shows · 12 statements across 11 episodes
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12 statements about Remote Workers, every show
Taylor: Remote Workers Slack Off Unless Given Aggressive Goals
“You got to be even more aggressive about your goals. You have to be more on top of people's performance, like performance management, setting aggressive goals, making sure that people are actually locked in, like is really, really important because I've learne…”
Adam D'Angelo: AGI is achieved when AI can do any remote job
“One definition I kind of like is if you say that you have a remote worker, a human, any job that can be done by someone whose job can be done remotely that, that's AGI.”
Bookman: Remote Workers End Up Quitting Due to Isolation and Disconnection
“It's the disaffection. It's the, I don't want to be paternalistic, but my colleague, Tiago, who is our one of our key leaders here, he said, look, people think they're happier sitting at home, and they're not. And they end up quitting like a week later. They s…”
Parr: ~50% of employers with remote workers use tracking software
“Something like 50% of all employers who have remote workers use some type of spy software.”
Martin: Remote workers are 35% to 40% more productive than in-office workers
“Remote workers are 35 to 40% more productive than their office workers.”
Vaynerchuk: In-office employees advance faster than remote workers due to osmosis
“It is very clear to me that the employees globally that are in the office are advancing past the ones that are not, because they're winning on the biggest thing in an office, it's called osmosis.”
Martin: Remote workers are on average 13% more productive than on-premise peers
“On average, remote workers are 13% more productive than their on premise counterparts.”
Martin: Remote workers work on average one extra day per week
“Remote workers work on average a day more per week than their on premise counterparts.”
Brown: Many Remote Workers Report Preferring Quitting Over Office Mandates
“And, ah, there's been this massive change in how workers experience work over the last year plus as so many folks have been working from home and have actually reported that they would rather quit their jobs than be called back into traditional offices, and so…”
Wilson: Remote workers will increasingly congregate around niche hobby communities
“And I think as people can now choose where they want to live, they're going to start congregating more in groups of like, I don't know, group around their hobbies or like vegans, how they want to eat. I don't know, like random niches.”
Sam Parr: Splitting the year between two cities will become normal
“I think that in the future, people like us and maybe a little bit younger, I think it's going to be incredibly normal to live somewhere for nine months and somewhere for three months.”