Maura : How do you foster connections with people, and how do you really form the culture when you’re fully remote? Do you think that you have an advantage from being always remote?Ĭhase : I’m very fortunate that I have a leadership team that not only talks the talk, but really walks the walk when it comes to protecting yourself and your personal space, and separating that from work and in life. Is Work-Life Balance Possible While Working Remotely? It’s my job to make sure that we’re doing remote at a world class level. My role as Head of Remote is really to ensure that we’re always leveling up and staying ahead of the curve in terms of remote work. In particular, Todoist and Twist, which Maura, already mentioned and is a great champion of.Ĭollectively, we serve about 25 million customers in 18 different languages, so when people tell me that remote work can’t work or that asynchronous remote work can’t work, I’m always kind of… I can’t help but chuckle a little bit, because we’ve been quite successful at it for over 10 years now. We’ve got about 100 people in 35 different countries spanning all time zones, and that’s worked really well for us. All we really look at is the deliverables and the work that gets done at the end of the day, end of the week, and the month. We don’t even track when people are working, or how many hours they’re investing in the day. We don’t hire based on time zone or location. Also, everybody works from where they want to work, when they want to work. And by remote, first of all, we mean we don’t hire on location. I’m the new Head of Remote at Doist, which I’ll explain a little bit more in a second.īut our company, Doist, has been fully remote-remote first, as we say-for over a decade. Maura : Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your role and the company?Ĭhase : Sure. Maura Thomas : Chase Warrington, thank you so much for sitting down with me.Ĭhase Warrington : Thank you so much for having me. Or read some of my favorite highlights here: For the full conversation, watch the video above.
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