Luke Thomas

One mistake people make when considering a work-from-anywhere model is assuming that meeting up in person is out of the question. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, every single leading remote-first company I can think of (i.e., Zapier, Automattic, GitLab, etc.) would meet up in the real world at least once

Similar to accountability and trust, alignment is a vague word that means different things to different people. When I think about alignment, I think about a sports team. The coach is responsible for coordinating the entire group and achieving a high level of performance, but each player has a specific

Now, let’s talk about another pain point that you may feel but may not want to admit - trusting your team. You may read advice on how you need to build trust with your team when working remotely. What does this even mean? Does this mean you should do

As your organization learns to work-from-anywhere, you may wonder how you can create a sense of accountability. You want to believe that your team will work on the most important things and that you can be hands-off. At the same time, you need to create an environment where everyone feels

Another issue you will need to confront is feeling disconnected from your team. Before, you could walk into the office and feel the energy as you walked around. Now, you may try to engage the team through Zoom and it feels different. Sometimes you may try to be engaging on

The number of ping-pong tables at the office does not create a healthy company culture. In a remote-first world, a Slack channel where employees can talk about their pets is not your company culture either. If we want to truly understand how to build a strong company culture when remote,