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Discussion on: The four types of remote work

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Jared Cobb

Great summary!

I've worked in all four environments. If you want to work remotely full time, then the Remote Friendly model is the absolute worst. It's inefficient for everyone involved (and being a lone remote worker will cause you to be excluded from common information sharing).

For "No Remote" one of the "pros" is:

It's usually easier to do meetings because everyone is right there and on that meeting

But I'd actually say this is a "con". When you work in a distributed team you'll find that most meetings go away, and the same information sharing happens in a few minutes over async chats. Meetings are a huge productivity killer, and a main reason why I love remote work.

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José Martins

I was mostly referring to the standard way we perceive it, because I tend to agree with you there, however it's not a straightforward process to get to that point (hence being a pro). You need to first go through things like having distributed team, to re-evaluating the whole meeting process and understanding async communication, to then realize how it needs to be an integral part of your work life.
We're mostly synchronous in the way we communicate, async is great but has a learning curve.
Great point, nonetheless!

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Jared Cobb

Yep, totally agree. It's a real paradigm shift. :)