remote work

“We see the short term productivity benefits of an extra hour off the commute. We don't see the longer term sort of more debilitating impact on learning, culture, creativity that come from having a workforce that's far too separate.”

“It actually turned out that some of the people who are most eager to return to the office are people with young kids, because it's super annoying to try and get your work done when the kids are pestering you.”

“Some companies operate a two-tier system where they say you can work remotely, but that is a second-class career path, and we're reluctantly doing that. That's remote or distributed in name only, and you're not going to get the best people.”

“My rough rule of thumb is if you had a hour long commute each way, we probably get half of that back in terms of work.”

“And so if you're just working at home, isolated from everyone, the chances you're going to have a marvelous random bumping are small.”

“Remote work, when it does work, is, ah, when there's a very intentional effort to bring people together physically, all in one place, in the same room, breathing the same air, and having a synchronous experience, but also having some leeway, you know, that inf…”

“One of the things you lose when you are not physically in the same city, in the same room as other people, are those chance encounters and also those planned encounters where you get together and you hatch an idea.”