A friend just sent me this, thought I could comment. We are over 7,000 people and never had an HQ at Deel. 500-word post going over: A. The two main misconceptions about remote work. B. 10 tactical tips to make it work. 1. Large companies behave like remote companies. If you go to any office, the person on the first floor won't know the person on the third floor. People Slack each other, share docs, get on calls. That's remote work. Being at the same building doesn't mean anything. Only the 5-10 people sitting at the same desk work in person. 2. People who don't want to work hard won't work hard; it's even easier to fake work when you are in an office. The only solution we've found is to hire driven people and create a culture that rewards top performers and automatically gets rid of bottom performers. _________ How to make remote work: 1. OKRs for every person and team. You must have full visibility on where they stand, especially after team grows larger. People who miss two straight quarters should be out. If you're not strict, it won't work. A good side effect of this is that underperformers leave the moment they realize they won't make it. 2. Slack is the office. If I reply in minutes to clients, they're still there and we start chatting. With teammates, the expectation spreads, and they start replying in minutes. Working remotely lets you drive dozens of initiatives every day if you are good at context switching. 3. Nobody has 8 straight hours of output. Real work gets done from 9-12, then a break. 13hs-15, break. 16hs-19hs. Remote lets you live between the bursts instead of pretending to work. 4. Take notes, write, and record. People forget things and when it's not somewhere, no one knows who's responsible for anything. 5. Hire people who are self-managing. Sounds cliche but it's really true. You can tell after they work 3-6 months at the company. 6. Default to public channels if needed. Everything in the open means the right person will jump in before a mistake ships or they'll be held responsible. Have an aggressive tag culture. 7. Onboard in public. New hires read the last 6 months of decisions in the channel and understands how you work by week one. 8. Hire across time zones on purpose. A ticket opened in London gets picked up in New York and resolved there, before Asia wakes up. Spread your team and the company runs 24hs without anyone doing a night shift. 9. Record and kill meetings quickly. Most syncs are one person talking and six people nodding. Post a video, let people watch at 2x. Save the live time for the things that really need it. If it's a 1v1, send a voice note and have people transcribe & summarize it. 10. Tie pay and promo to output. The minute you reward who's green on Slack at 9pm, everyone starts pretending. Judge the work. Nobody who ships should ever feel they need to perform being busy.