Joe Thomas: GitLab Handbook Provides Copy-Paste Templates to Decline Meetings
Joe Thomas · 4 Ways to Get to $10 Billion by Working Async (Without Burning Out) with Loom CEO Joe Thomas · Feb 23, 2022 · at 10:43
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Loom CEO Joe Thomas outlines how GitLab empowers employees to challenge norms and default to asynchronous work.
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“They actually go as far as to provide copy and paste text in their handbook to turn down meetings, saying that this just isn't useful for us to do synchronous, we should do asynchronous.”
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