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Our focus on distributed work didn’t happen accidentally.
When we started WordPress, many of the first 20 hires were people I’d never met in person. But we’d collaborated online, sometimes for years.
At the base of the decision to go distributed, there’s a desire to give people autonomy over how they do their work.
If you have an office, you can do a few things to build distributed capability.
First: document everything… Always leave a trail of where you were and what you were thinking about.
We come together for short, intense bursts. Once a year, we do a grand meet-up where the entire company comes together for a week.
Every person at Automattic has a co-working stipend that they can put towards a co-working space or just to buy coffee, so they don’t get kicked out of the coffee shop.
One group in Seattle decided to pool their stipends together and rented a workspace on a fishing pier
As you think about what you’re going to build next, consider how you can tap into global talent.