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But I’d love to see infrastructure built that specifically supports virtual teamwork for creators, and makes collaboration accessible, and as frictionless as possible, for all.

In a recent tweet by Common Thread Collective founder Taylor Holiday on remote work, he provided the following insights for how he’d prefer to manage his company of 50 or so employees: Work from anywhere ideas we are playing with: Each team gets one week “work together sprint” anywhere in the world, co-working stipend, buying homes in rad locations... See more

But I do know that as the boundaries of life and work become more porous and businesses transform into webs of interrelationships between people, we need software that takes new assumptions about group structures to heart.

For Chapman, a human approach to decentralization means honoring people’s specialties – not creating a flat structure where everyone’s work and ideas are weighted equally, but delegating appropriately based on skillsets.

For remote workers:

Organize month-long workations, during which employees can move to one city and work together, enabling serendipitous interaction and deep relationship building.

I think another important factor in determining happiness is how hard of a line you want between work and home life. One benefit of traditional office environments is that when you physically leave the office, it’s not too hard to flip the switch and go into “home mode”. Sure you may have to deal with the odd email every now and then, but it’s rela... See more