Brown: A single annual two-week in-person meetup sustains remote teams
Hayden Brown · The Secrets to Scaling a Public Company with a 75% Freelancer Workforce with Upwork CEO Hayden Brown · Feb 24, 2022 · at 20:56
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Upwork CEO Hayden Brown describes how Upwork balances remote work with in-person team gatherings for distributed teams.
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“We have a practice where our virtual teams do get together once every year or so for a two-week agile, like, meetup where the team is, you know, in Czechoslovakia or Mexico City or somewhere, and they do have team building in person. The rest of the year, they're working, you know, virtually, and that is enough. You know, some of those thoughtful face-to-face meetings are enough to carry them through the year.”
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