Stevens-Smith: Hybrid office and remote cultures inevitably diverge without continuous intervention
Fred Stevens-Smith · 916 SaaS: Y Combinator QA Company Passes $12m+ in ARR After Graham Shits on Name · Jan 26, 2018 · at 9:43
Fred Stevens-Smith, CEO of Rainforest QA, explains why the company institutes mandatory remote weeks for in-office staff to prevent cultural divergence.
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“When you have a culture where some segment is in an office, some segment is distributed, some segment is in another office. You have to continually work to bring these cultures back together as they diverge over time, you know, because the culture for the remote folks, the folks that live in Slack, that live in GitHub, you know, that all of the communication happens asynchronously and over text versus when you're in the office and you just get to see people by the face and all of that good stuff.”
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