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From YouTube: Tips for a productive all-remote workforce
Description
In this episode of Talent on Tap, Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and CEO of the DevOps platform Gitlab, shares his tips for creating a successful all-remote workforce at your company.
A
Welcome
to
talent
on
tap,
my
name
is
Brendan
Brown
I
had
up
recruiting
here
at
LinkedIn
and
I
am
positively
thrilled
to
welcome
Syd
C
brandy
to
the
show
he
is
the
founder
and
CEO
of
gitlab,
which
is
the
biggest
all
remote
company
in
the
world,
which
is
something
that
I
am
super
excited
to
dig
into.
So
welcome
said
thanks.
B
A
product
it's
a
complete
devops
platform
delivered
as
a
single
application
and
devops
is
shipping
software.
We
help
people
go
faster
from.
We
want
to
do
this
to
having
the
result
out
to
customers
and
getting
feedback
on
that
we've
grown
last
year
from
400
to
1100
people
Wow,
who
are
all
over
the
world.
65
countries
Wow.
A
B
A
B
First
business
case
it's
great
for
the
team
member
they
save
on
commuting
time.
They
get
that
time
back
and
most
of
all,
they
get
flexibility.
The
kids
are
sick,
you're
already
working
from
home.
You
are
able
to
be
there
for
them,
and
that
shows
up
in
retention.
We
have
85
percent
retention,
which
is
almost
twice
as
good
as
the
industry
average,
and
it
helps
you
recruit
more
people
like
the
big
metro
area,
as
everyone
is
recruiting
there.
The
business
case
for
the
company
is,
it
has
also
cost
savings.
B
A
B
Very
important
that
the
leadership
is
body
like
if
the
leadership
doesn't
come
to
the
office.
People
will
mimic
that
you
have
the
senior
leadership
in
the
same
location.
Every
day,
people
are
gonna
mimic
that
that's
by
default,
gonna
be
the
head
office
and
everyone
else
is
in
the
satellite
office.
Another
thing
is
transparency,
because
there
are
fewer
informal
communication
channels.
You
have
to
be
more
transparent
as
a
company,
you
cannot
assume
that
information
will
dissipate,
so
you
communicate
more
than
you'd
normally
do.
Another
thing
we
do
is
making
decisions
asynchronously,
okay,.
A
B
We
have
the
concept
of
DRI
a
directly
responsible,
individual,
so
at
gate
lab
everyone
can
give
input
about
a
decision
that
the
person
who
does
the
work
makes
the
decision
and
they
don't
have
to
convince
everyone.
They
don't
have
to
explain
themselves.
They
can
just
make
that
decision
that
prevents
decisions
from
going
under
the
radar,
because
otherwise
you
have
to
convince
too
many
interesting.
A
B
One's
gonna
get
in
my
way.
We
want
to
combine
the
best
things
about
a
consensus
and
a
hierarchical,
conscious,
culture,
okay,
consensus
called
just
great
because
you
get
input
from
everyone.
That's
super
valuable
hierarchical
culture
is
great
because
you
can
make
a
decision
quickly,
I
think
by
splitting
the
decision
in
two
parts
gathering
input
and
making
it
and
making
the
first
thing
open
to
almost
the
world
a
lot
of
decisions
we
take
our
online,
everyone
can
see
them
and
then
the
second
thing
is
small
as
possible.
B
Just
one
person
the
person
who
has
to
do
the
work
we
get
the
best
of
both
worlds,
all
right
helpful.
What
else
I
think
one
thing
that
helps
my
coordination
is
problematic
and
it's
hard
in
any
company
and
because
we're
in
so
many
times
I
would
state
asynchronous
e
is
super
hard.
We
have
a
value
of
iteration,
so
we
ship
very
small
things
and
that
allows
everyone
to
see
kind
of
the
current
state.
Suppose
you're
going
to
go
on
a
on
a
very
long
mission.
You
got
to
align
with
everyone.
B
You
got
to
talk
with
marketing
and
sales
and
everyone
else.
What
you're
going
to
do,
if
you're
doing
something
small
and
it's
not
the
right
direction,
you
can
adjust,
adjust
your
next
step,
yeah,
so
going
a
very
fast
increments
and
then
shipping
that
so
the
entire
world
sees
it,
including
all
your
other
team
members
really
helps
us
along
okay,.
A
B
The
final
one
would
be
handbook
first
because
you're
not
co-located,
it's
really
hard.
If
you
have
to
tap
someone
on
the
shoulder
to
get
their
advice.
First
of
all,
that
person
might
not
be
in
your
time
zone,
so
you
wasting
a
lot
of
time.
So
we
write
a
lot
of
things
down.
We
have
a
handbook
of
over
two
thousand
pages
and
anytime
we
implement
something.