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GitLab's Guide to All-Remote: The Remote Manifesto: All-remote work promotes:
- Hiring and working from all over the world (instead of from a central location).
- Flexible working hours (over set working hours).
- Writing down and recording knowledge (over verbal explanations).
- Written processes (over on-the-job training).
- Public sharing of information (over need-to-know access).
- Opening up documents for editing by anyone (over top-down control of documents).
- Asynchronous communication (over synchronous communication).
- The results of work (over the hours put in).
- Formal communication channels (over informal communication channels).
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"How to make hybrid work a success" "Clarity of expectations is the key" (The Economist, 9 Apr 2022)
- "The 3-2-1 Remote Rule: How Senior Devs Stay Productive Working From Home"
- Remote Work Isn’t the Problem—Poor Management Is, New Study Finds: "Remote work sounds like a great idea for our hyper-connected world, and countless studies support the value of this workplace model, which has become more common since Covid. For instance, data from KPMG shows that companies that allow remote work grow 1.7 times faster. But the topic of remote work and hybrid work somehow remains contentious, with many company leaders insisting on banging the “return to the office” drum, claiming that they can’t properly control their company’s performance without having their staff working within direct view. Now, new data from a U.K. study adds yet more support for the value of remote work, and points out that it’s actually weak management capabilities, coming from poor training, that are blocking successful remote/hybrid models. The new research, from economics researchers at the London School of Economics and Birmingham University, points to the reason this problem is important. Despite this hybridization trend, there is a “growing tension between employees, who value the flexibility it offers, and some employers, who are pushing for a return to in-person arrangements.” The researchers looked at 800 companies and found that if you want to properly benefit from remote work, the key factor is the simplest one: training. The data shows that companies that invested in systematic training were more than twice as likely to report productivity gains: 42 percent versus 20 percent, Phys.org reports. Adopting and embracing hybrid work earlier rather than later also delivered an advantage, the data shows. The workplaces that were well-placed to adopt remote work in 2020 said they had the highest positive productivity impacts and lowest negative productivity impacts from the shift to remote work, compared with firms that moved more slowly or more reluctantly."
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Last modified 21 June 2026