{"id":5741,"date":"2018-06-16T03:57:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T15:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=5741"},"modified":"2018-06-16T03:59:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T15:59:43","slug":"to-deliver-the-worlds-best-products-you-have-to-have-the-world-contributing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/to-deliver-the-worlds-best-products-you-have-to-have-the-world-contributing\/","title":{"rendered":"To deliver the worlds best products, you have to have the world contributing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A riff on why remote work is essential.<\/p>\n<p>I run a technology company headquartered here in New York with remote teams in India, UK, Sweden and AsiaPac.<\/p>\n<p>We embraced remote working out of necessity but found it has become a real strength of our business. To deliver the worlds best products, you have to have the world contributing.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we found:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Turn time zones in to an advantage<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time zones turn a 5 day week in to a 6 day effective work week. Days can have a 16 hour coverage. Presuming everyone is well briefed and communicated.<\/li>\n<li>Public holidays in one country enhance this effect.<\/li>\n<li>Compound this 52 weeks\/year and it gives you a significant edge over your competitors. And with the same employee investment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every Friday, we\u2019re briefing changes\/responses in, to deliver Monday morning &#8211; putting us ahead, just as everyone is getting started. It\u2019s not about the epic wins, it\u2019s about the always on small wins. This helps us win, by design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Enabled us to be more precise in hiring<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opening to remote work means you can be a lot more precise in your role hiring, as you are more likely to find that person with a particular set of requirements.<\/li>\n<li>^ Then your chance of hiring them is a lot higher too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remote working allows you to find people wherever they are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Made our internal processes more robust<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It enforces process at a younger age and\/or smaller size.<\/li>\n<li>These processes also encourage effective documentation and communication, both of which create better work.<\/li>\n<li>If we were all in one place we wouldn\u2019t have had to do this as fast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>People always say to me, oh I thought you were much bigger, it\u2019s because of the discipline, time zone advantage and ability to hire precisely.<\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of my readers, are pioneers in their own ways. It\u2019s important to fly the flag for the future of work mobility, and to help provide enough reasons to help those companies who haven\u2019t made the leap yet. What have you found? Please <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bwagy\">@bwagy<\/a> me on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Please do share&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to find more about us, and\/or jobs at Nudge visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giveitanudge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.giveitanudge.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A riff on why remote work is essential. I run a technology company headquartered here in New York with remote teams in India, UK, Sweden and AsiaPac. We embraced remote working out of necessity but found it has become a real strength of our business. To deliver the worlds best products, you have to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1456,1455],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5746,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions\/5746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}