RemoteOnly.org
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Notaは、日本の会社としてはじめてremoteonly.orgに掲載された Manifesto
Remote Only work promotes:
1. Hiring and working from all over the world instead of from a central location.
2. Flexible working hours over set working hours.
3. Writing down and recording knowledge over verbal explanations.
4. Written down processes over on-the-job training.
5. Public sharing of information over need-to-know access.
6. Opening every document to change by anyone over top down control of documents.
8. The results of work over the hours put in.
9. Formal communication channels over informal communication channels.
While there is sometimes value in the items on the right, we have come to value the items on the left more.
マニフェスト
1. 周囲の人ではなく世界中の人を雇う
2. 固定した労働時間より、柔軟な労働時間
3. 知識は、口頭での説明より、文字で書いて記録
4. 手順は、働きながら学ぶより、文字で書く
5. 情報は、必要に応じて見せるより、広く公開する
6. トップダウンによる制御より、全てのドキュメントを誰でも変更できるようにする
7. 同期的なコミュニケーションより、非同期的なコミュニケーション
8. 労働は、費やした時間より、成果
9. 非公式なコミュニケーションチャネルより、公式なコミュニケーションチャネル
前者にも価値があることはあるが、後者のほうにより価値を見いだす
Practical tips
1. People don't have to say when they are working.
2. Working long hours or weekends is not encouraged nor celebrated.
3. Use screenshots in an issue tracker instead of a whiteboard, ensuring that everyone at any time can follow the thought process.
4. Encourage non-work related communication (talking about private life on a team call).
5. Encourage group video calls for bonding. 6. Encourage video calls between people (10 as part of onboarding). 7. Periodic summits with the whole company to get to know each other in an informal setting.
9. Assign new hires a buddy so they have someone to reach out to.
10. Allow everyone in the company to view and edit every document.
11. Every document is always in draft, don't wait with sharing it until it is done.
12. Encourage people to write information down.
実践Tips
1. いつ仕事しているか言わなくてもいい
2. 長時間労働や週末労働は、推奨されないし、祝福されない
3. ホワイトボードではなくて、スクリーンショットを使って記録することで、全員がいつでも意思決定のプロセスについて追えるようにしよう
4. 仕事に関係のない雑談を歓迎しよう
5. チームの結束のためグループビデオ会議を推奨しよう
6. メンバー間のビデオ会議を推奨しよう
7. 定期的に、全社のサミットを開催しよう。全員が打ち解けられるように
8. チームワークと、感謝を言い合うことを推奨しよう
9. 新人には、バディをつけて、だれかに相談できるようにしよう
10. 全員が、全てのドキュメントを閲覧および編集できるようにしよう
11. すべてのドキュメントは、常に書きかけ(ドラフト)なので、共有するのに完成を待つ必要はない
12. 情報を書き残すことを推奨しよう
What is it not
There is no main office or headquarter with multiple people "The only way to not have people in a satellite office is not to have a main office."
You do work together and communicate intensely, remote doesn't mean working independent of each other.
Offshoring of work, you hire around the world.
It is not a management paradigm, it is still a normal hierarchical organization, however there is a focus on output instead of input.
It is not a substitute for human interaction, people still need to collaborate, have conversations, and feel part of a team.
How it changes the organization
Knowledge is written down instead of passed verbally
More asynchronous communication
Shorter and fewer meetings
More transparency within and outside the organization
Everything is public by default
More official communication, less informal
More recorded materials means less interruptions and less on-the-job training
Advantages for employees
More flexibility in your daily life (kids, parents, friends, groceries, sports, deliveries)
Not waste of the money for commute
Traveling to other places without taking vacation (family, fun, etc.)
Free to relocate to other places
Some folks find it easier to communicate with rude colleguagies remotely
Onboarding may be less stressfull
Home food: better (sometimes) and cheapier
Advantages for organizations
Hire great people irrespective of where they live
More effective employees since they have less distractions
More loyal employees
Save on office costs
Save on compensation due to hiring in lower cost regions
Selects for self starting people
Makes it easy to grow a company quickly
Encourages a focus on results, less meetings, more output
Cheaper taxes in some counties
Advantages for the world
Reduce environmental impact due to no commuting Reduce environmental impact due to less office space
通勤やオフィス空間をなくすと環境に良い
Reduce inequality due to bringing better paying jobs to lower cost regions
Disadvantages
Scares investors
Scares some partners
Scares some customers
Scares some potential employees, mostly senior non-technical hires
Onboarding may be harder, first month feels lonely (for some people)
Some people find it more difficult to work from in the same place where they sleep and watch films - dedicated workplace helps to switch the context
Some people find that remote working degradate communication skills
The need to prepare food
Why is this possible now
Fast internet everywhere - 100Mb/s+ cable, 5GHz Wifi, 4G cellular
Video call software - Google Hangouts, Zoom
Mobile - Everyone has a computer in their pocket
Messaging apps - Slack, Mattermost
Issue trackers - Trello, GitHub issues, GitLab issues
Suggestions - GitHub Pull Requests, GitLab Merge Requests
Static websites - GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages
English proficiency - More people are learning English
Increasing traffic congestion in cities
At large tech companies people on the same campus now routinely do video calls instead of traveling 10 minutes each way to a different building.
More ways to enable remote-only work are continuously being developed. One example is the evolution of speech-to-text conversion software, which is more accurate and faster than typing, thus making written communication easier and more effective. Reading was already faster than listening, but now the process of committing speech to text + reading by recipient can be the faster way to communicate even in a 1:1 communication. For one-to-many communication, typing + reading is already faster. 聞くよりも読む方が高速
しかし、タイピングよりも話す方が高速
1対1でも
1対多でも
Remote only companies
Buffer, see their posts about going remote-only, the benefits, and how they make it work.
GitLab, this website is hosted by GitLab, everyone is welcome to contribute to this page, also see our handbook for remote working practices.
Groove, see their blog on being a remote team.
Anybox, see their feedback (in french) Télétravail généralisé, notre retour d'expérience.
IOpipe
Remote first companies
Basecamp, authors of Remote
Wordpress, authors of The year without pants