Remote Work
Why Silicon Valley Hates Remote Work
Yahoo was the first big name to go against the remote work trend [http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-defends-her-work-from-home-ban-2013-4] and bring employees back to the office in 2013. Earlier this year, IBM, formerly a leader in telecommuting, announced that their 2,600-person marketing team would be "co-located" in a
Tailwinds
Reading this Atlantic article on the Retail Meltdown of 2017 [https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/retail-meltdown-of-2017/522384/] reminded me of the importance of riding tailwinds in a business. The winners take advantage of societal and market trends. The losers resist the change that is obvious to everyone
Output Over Hours
> It is high time to rid ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either lost time or a class privilege. -Henry Ford, 1926 Time is the wrong unit of measurement for knowledge work. Only results matter. And results are not a function of time spent. Working on
Tortuga's Communication Flowchart
In the Bay Area, three garbage cans is the norm. One each for composting, recycling, and landfill. I always think of them in that order. Can this go into the compost? If yes, put it there. If not, can it go in recycling? And so on down the line. Landfill
The Remote Work Tech Stack
Startups love to share their tech stacks: the technologies on which their software is built. I'm more interested in the tools that companies use to run their businesses. I'm always happy to see a company I admire using a tool that we use at Tortuga [http:
Two Heuristics for Determining if Your Remote Culture Will Succeed or Fail
Zach Holman's Remote-First vs. Remote-Friendly [https://zachholman.com/posts/remote-first/] was the first post I read that adequately captured how important it is for companies to commit to being remote. > I think there’s a split between being remote-friendly — hiring some workers in a different city — and
Remote is Only the First Step
> This post is an extension of the On Your Terms Manifesto [https://www.fredperrotta.com/on-your-terms-manifesto/]. Being remote is necessary but not sufficient for building more human companies. I write a lot about the remote work here [https://www.fredperrotta.com/tag/remote-work/], and we cover the topic extensively
The On Your Terms Manifesto
The first step to creating a movement is to publish a manifesto. Today, we start the On Your Terms movement. I submit to you the On Your Terms Manifesto first drafted, not coincidentally, on January 20, 2017, Inauguration Day. Travel On Your Terms Travel is part of your life, not
The Importance of Trust in Remote Teams
At our first big retreat in Montreal, we talked a lot about what working at Tortuga [http://www.tortugabackpacks.com] is like and who would be a good fit at the company. One word kept coming up: trust. I hadn't slowed down enough to think about it before,
Remote Work Gone Wrong
Sitting alone in his control room, your boss suddenly wonders if you're being productive. He turns his head to the right to check the CCTV feed of your desk. There you are. In your chair. At your desk. Being a good little minion. Thank God you hadn'