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The RTO debate has a new point of contention, it seems. At CNBCs recent Workforce Executive Council Summit, Ellevest CEO Sallie Krawcheck said that her team has been more successful overall and even better at hitting deadlines since moving to a fully distributed model. But that came at a price, she added: We are lessMore

In a recent interview with Fast Company, Annie Dean, Atlassians VP of Team Anywhere, made it clear that the Australia-based software companys future is distributed. Dean was a proponent of flexible work long before she came to the company known for collaboration tools like Trello and Jira, but in the years before the pandemic, herMore

In a recent post to the Roblox company blog, founder and CEO David Baszucki mandated that the large majority of Robloxs remote employees return to a physical office in 2024. Citing concerns about Zoom fatigue and lack of creative collaboration, he concluded that we arent there yet when it comes to a remote work technologyMore

In a recently published article, The New York Times offered a brief overview of some things society has learned (or not) about remote work. More than three years after the pandemic kicked off what reporter Emma Goldberg calls a mass workplace experiment, plenty of companies have yet to figure out what workseither for employees orMore

On this episode of the Distributed podcast, we dig into the good, the bad, and the history of Automattic meetups. More

The latest episode of the Distributed podcast pairs Dylan Field, Figmas CEO and Co-founder, and guest host Connie Yang, Head of Payments Design at Stripe. Join a discussion on design, instilling remote culture, and the digital economy, including Field’s perspective on the role of design in technology. Weve gone from a physical economy to a digital economy. I dont think these are new trends or new things that happen but now, all of a sudden it happened all at once, and accelerated massively, he says.More

Congratulations to GitLab on its IPO earlier this week. You can read coverage of GitLab’s public offering at TechCrunch (GitLab’s mega IPO), Bloomberg, and plenty of other places. In May, we interviewed CEO and Co-Founder Sid Sijbrandij on the Distributed Podcast. The conversation didn’t specifically cover a potential public offering beyond Sid acknowledging GitLab’s well-knownMore

Part of my lifes work is trying to make WordPress something that looks more like a city. Companies always die. Cities never die. Theres networks of things that can be created, and once they reach a certain scale, theyre somewhat invulnerable. -Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg This week, TechCrunch published a four-part series of articles thatMore

“If you’re a business for whom talent is a key differentiator,” said Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg this week on Cheddar News’ Closing Bell, “then I would highly recommend you learning how to evolve your business to be fully inclusive of remote people.”More

Whether making their start as a solo blogger on their own beat, or growing up in a thriving newsroom, journalists must forge their own unique work life as they write the first draft of history, as Matt says in the latest Distributed podcast episode with Erica Pandey, business journalist and writer of the Whats Next newsletter at Axios. This fast-paced conversation covers a lot of ground, from Ericas own journalism career, to how she works with her Axios colleagues across bureaus. She balances Axios Smart Brevity style with authoritative reporting on complex topics, seeking multiples perspectives, from data to experts to people on the ground. Says Erica, One of my greatest joys is being able to talk to people.

The lively conversation centers on how were all returning to work after so much change and adaptation, including the rise of hybrid workplaces.More