Week #8: Open floor plans, working for a fast-growing startup, and checklists đ
Happy new year!
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Now for the good stuff, what will you find in todayâs letter? Ready?
Stop creating open floor plans, they donât work. Go remote.
How my friend Wes goes about working remotely for a fast-growing startup.
Why I love checklists to communicate across distributed teams.
Upcoming Remote Huddle webinar with the founder of Pragli. Youâre invited!
This weekâs read
Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time
Inc.com wrote an article all about the huge surge and trend where every company started to adopt an office floor plan. Guess what? It looks like now those floor plans have had the opposite effect for employees and management. It didnât improve communication nor did it encourage more social interaction. Hmm, maybe time for management to have a conversation about introducing a remote work setting?
âŚExtras
đšAn interview with my friend Wes and Remote Grad diving into what itâs like working at a fast-growing remote startup. Give it a peek here.
đ¨Give this a try - for your next project or release setup a shared checklist via Dropbox Paper, Notion, Google Doc, or youâre favorite documentation tool. Checklists are easy to create, theyâre a great fallback in case anything goes off the rails, they keep teams accountable, and for a remote team it becomes a shared space to communicate and a space to keep an eye on project progress.
Copy this checklist that I recently used
đ§ Later this month weâll be holding a webinar with the founder of Pragli, Vivek Nair. Weâll talk about the importance of video collaboration and his background with remote work. Join us.
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