Quinn Slack of Sourcegraph on Moving to Fully Remote and Zoomcations

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph, about becoming a fully remote company, ways to improve communication and collaboration and the value of Zoomcations

Why listen to this podcast:

• If working remotely really is optional then it’s really important not to put any subtle pressure that says to people that they need to be in the office – it causes stress and confusion
• Coming into a half-empty office feels like being in a disaster movie, and generates subtle pressure on people to come into the office
• Working remotely is a forcing function that causes you to tackle problems which get ignored when working in person, such as how you onboard new people and how you encourage collaboration
• Making all policies and way-of-working public and visible enhances collaboration and communication
• Zoomcations (taking a week and working completely asynchronously, without attending any synchronous meetings) allow for deep work and expose communication & collaboration shortcomings in organisation systems

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