Mullenweg: Distributed work suffers more from overwork than underwork
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Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, discusses managing remote teams on The Knowledge Project.
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“The problem we have actually in distributed work, so to get to another downside, is not under work, it's over work.”
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