[Podcast] How Do Fully Distributed Teams Work? | The Future Reworked

This was a podcast episode I wrote and produced for Piktochart. Listen to more episodes here. Today on episode two of our new podcast on the future of work, we’re taking an in depth look at those fully-distributed teams - the companies that don’t require their people to go into an office at all.

We chat with the good people of SchoolKeep, Buffer, Hanno, and Toggl and learn about how they run their distributed teams. These are companies made up of people collaborating remotely across a handful of different time zones, from North America to Asia. and you can bet that no one is asking them to punch the clock.

SHOW NOTES

0:40 - Visualize a company with no office 2:00 - Introducing the distributed team model 2:27 - Random meetings are a productivity killer 4:18 - What is asynchronous collaboration? 5:46 - All roles are suitable for remote work 7:16 - Easy to forget that remote workers are actual human beings 8:25 - People are more honest with computers than humans 9:01 - Lack of trust is the biggest obstacle for remote teams 10:05 - This fully distributed team is keeping its office 11:54 - Distributed set up helps win the war for talent 13:16 - Buffer’s story of going fully remote 14:59 - Distributed model is fitting for the tech industry 15:30 - What else should we change about our work lives?