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very time I see<\/strong> a \u201cthe future of work is remote\u201d article, I think to myself: \u201cHow backwards! How retro! How quaint!\u201d That future is now, for many of us. I\u2019ve been a fully remote developer-turned-CTO<\/a>for a full decade. So I\u2019m always baffled by people still wrestling with whether remote work is viable for their company. That jury rendered its verdict a long time ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One reason companies still struggle with it is that remote work amplifies the negative effects of bad practices<\/em>. If everyone\u2019s in one place, you can dither, handwave, vacillate, micromanage, and turn your workplace into an endless wasteland of unclear uncertainty, punctuated by ad-hoc last-second crisis meetings \u2014 and your employees will probably still conspire against your counterproduction to get something<\/em> done, albeit much less than what they\u2019re capable of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they\u2019re remote, though, progress via conspiracy and adhocracy is no longer an option. If they\u2019re remote, you need decisive confidence, clear direction, iterative targets, independent responsibilities, asynchronous communications, and cheerful chatter. Let me go over each of those:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decisive confidence<\/strong>. Suppose Vivek in Delhi, Diego in Rio, and Miles in Berlin are all on a project. (An example I\u2019m drawing from my real life.) It\u2019s late your time. You have to make a decision about the direction of their work. If you sleep on it, you\u2019re writing off multiple developer-days of productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes they have enough responsibilities to have other things to work on. (More on that below.) Sometimes you don\u2019t have to make the decision because they have enough responsibility to do so themselves. (More on that below.) But sometimes you have to make the business-level decision based on scant information. In cases like this, remember the military maxim: \u201cAny decision is better than no decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spurce: https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/06\/14\/how-to-make-remote-work-work\/<\/a>
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