Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
...And it also takes having a central office staff that understands "we're a mostly-remote company" and consider the optics of offering events that are effectively only available "in the office". I mean, it's great that you want to create a home-y atmosphere, but when the primary beneficiary of "team-building" exercises are the overhead staff and not the actual dispersed teams, those events can become antagonizing.
Valid point, and something we'll certainly need to keep in mind as we expand and include more fully-remote employees in the mix. Presently, I believe we're somewhere around the ratio of 100 to 1. Thank you for your feedback and insight, I'm sure it will come in valuable in the coming months/years.
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...And it also takes having a central office staff that understands "we're a mostly-remote company" and consider the optics of offering events that are effectively only available "in the office". I mean, it's great that you want to create a home-y atmosphere, but when the primary beneficiary of "team-building" exercises are the overhead staff and not the actual dispersed teams, those events can become antagonizing.
Valid point, and something we'll certainly need to keep in mind as we expand and include more fully-remote employees in the mix. Presently, I believe we're somewhere around the ratio of 100 to 1. Thank you for your feedback and insight, I'm sure it will come in valuable in the coming months/years.