@calm-grass-85557 Slack isn't very suitable for communities. Beyond a size, either we'll start losing the archives, links, search etc, or some how per user pricing (which is quite high) will have to be paid. Can you tell us how you went about evaluating alternatives and what eventually sealed the deal in favor of Slack?

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What are the bottlenecks that prevent tech employers from adopting remote work more widely? Is there a technological solution possible? It looks like this would have quite a significant impact on society: - Saves time, improves quality of life - saves fossil fuel, - saves environment, - improves trade deficit, - improves traffic congestion, - reduces real-estate expenses, - reduces urban migration - allows social cohesion (not forcing people to live away from their dear ones) - and so on... Is it because supply of workers who can be productive working remotely is too low? Is it something else?

Perceived Efficiency & Documented processes are something that all the larger fully distributed corporations have in common (I have hands-on experience of working with at-least 3)

I think that is something that's missing from most of the regular companies/startups which heavily rely on management overwatching the staff.

Hey @acceptable-flag-71699 @calm-noon-73911 @dry-waitress-7852 really good points made here !! I am curious whether it makes sense to have this discussion on Twitter 👉🏼 https://mobile.twitter.com/AgrPrashant/status/1095015897557655552

Btw my opinion is pretty stoic on this one. The world is unfair sometimes. You have to surf the waves without complaining about the direction or the force of the waves 🏄🏼 That said, if an conscious effort is made we can bridge the trust deficit present now.

Indie devs this might be interesting for you’ll: “Indian users are eating apps for breakfast. Organic growth or CaC might no longer be the measure of pull for apps in India.. uninstall rate and engagement have become more imp for measuring PMF even in the early days..” - Harsha, LSVP

Hi, What you guys think for other functions working remotely? For examples Product Marketing and Product sales? Does working in a different time zone becomes a hindrance ?

As a full-time remote employee I'd advice go for companies with remote DNA, time-zone, work-delegation and remote-culture building are all things that these companies have figured out for you.

It becomes a big problem when you are the only remote end in a company and have to sync with rest of the team working out of a single office.

PS: Let's take it to twitter, not sure how many folks from here I'm following on twitter (I'm a bit more active there than here)

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That is good point Himanshu. Though there have been remote job openings but have to find a company which has, more than 50 percent employees working in remote locations

Yeah, check-out this page 👉 https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

Let me just throw this here ... Remote work is no longer a “perk,” “lifestyle,” or “policy.” As of 2019, remote work, telecommuting and workplace flexibility have officially become a global industry. https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurelfarrer/2019/02/01/remote-working-is-it-more-than-a-trend/#1dc0feba7fdf Yes, the list of pros/cons is endless, but around 30-40% of Fortune 500 have started hiring Remote folks, I see them daily in my numbers at Upwork and my work that I do for them. So it's growing well, will take maybe 5-10 years for it to become fully mainstream and another 5-10 to base it on ground and be a reality.

30-40% is too high bro

@average-judge-62891 Real live data bro, Upwork is one of my clients so I can see the data live and all big names are there 🙂

Can't share exact data, but this is public information already that 30% of Fortune 500 are already customers of Upwork and have hired Freelancers now or in the past

@swift-pilot-25722 Upwork is contractual, short-term work. We're talking about employees here, aren't we? How many tech unicorns have more than 20% of their employees working remotely?

@acceptable-flag-71699 absolutely wrong, think of Upwork as an Iceberg, what you see from outside is short term contractual, but what really happens for the premium and Enterprise markets is all long term. Read about the hidden economy of upwork and invites systems, don't see the Shit numbers from Your job feeds. All enterprises that are customers of Upwork have outsourced 10-30% of their work to remote folks. Upwork has ~500+ Freelancers /Remote folks on payroll including me, which is 30-50% of their workforce Most of the big work for Enterprises are happening for Years, I have 3 clients that I've had for years! Upwork has been a client for 6 months, there is nothing short term about any of the above numbers. 🙂

Let me ask a q's to everyone here and see what you think of upwork : 1. How much does the Top 1% of Freelancer earn on upwork? 2. What is the Amount that the #1 Freelancer made on upwork in last 1 year? (Hint: Anomaly of the data and very good number)

Ok, this is interesting. But then it sounds more like outsourcing to a remote company. What I'm asking is how many companies are getting their core in-house work done by majorly remote workers. I know GitLab for one does this. But many tech companies are still skeptical. If it's important enough not to be outsourced or contracted out, many think it should be done on-premise.

I'm saying core work, not high-value work. So prices would be irrelevant.

Here are Upwork's own job postings: https://jobs.lever.co/upwork They want everyone to be in mountain view or SF.

Remote work is like them modular furniture videos you see every now and then. They save space, are eco-friendly and magically serve multiple functions. But you don't see them anywhere IRL.

Like these ones 👉 https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1094939899105603584